On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> > > Since fbdev is handling the console there is no need to restore
> > > vga fonts/colormap (i don't know if it is possible to run vgacon
> > > under some of the ibm machines, if yes then it is needed there)
> >
> > That's my point, either we don't need anything anywhere (we don't need to
> > save
> > the VGA mode with fbcon) or we need nothing on some machines and everything
> > on
> > others. Saving and restoring only part of the VGA context doesn't make sense
> > to me.
>
> Hmm you have a point there, i have a feeling that the text/colormap
> was not crasing in the isa i/o access but in the isa mem ones,
> (we mmap 0xA0000, i wonder what lives there since isa mem definitely
> isn't)
If you just mmap() 0xa0000 from /dev/mem, you'll get RAM on most machines.
Corrupting kernel memory can result in a nice kernel crash :-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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