Re: How to compile kernel for Geode GX1

[Jordan Crouse]

If you are using the vesa framebuffer on the Geode, you will also want to 
make a minor change to vesafb.c.  Because the framebuffer is located within 
the processor itself, requesting the memory region always caused my Geode 
boxes to freeze.  I think that we can safely eliminate this call, since we 
know the memory is always available:  

--- /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/vesafb.c	Thu Mar  8 10:35:53 2001
+++ vesafb.c	Tue Mar 27 09:13:22 2001
@@ -519,12 +519,14 @@
 	video_visual = (video_bpp == 8) ?
 		FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
 
+#ifdef NOTUSED
 	if (!request_mem_region(video_base, video_size, "vesafb")) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR
 		       "vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0x%lx\n",
 			video_base);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
+#endif
 
         video_vbase = ioremap(video_base, video_size);
 	if (!video_vbase) {

Jordan
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