Frame buffers aren't reliable marked VM_IO when mapped, currently. Ben
H. said he was going to push a fix for this at least to the PPC trees
today or tomorrow.
It's cute - fbmem.c goes out of its way to set the flag on some
architectures and not others. I can't imagine why.
But with that, yes, that should fix it.
> > Of course, I would much rather be able to see the contents of the
> > framebuffer. Any suggestions?
>
> Not with this patch, I'm afraid. For your testing purposes you
> could just remove the VALID_PAGE() test in mm/memory.c:get_page_map(),
> and then gdb should be able to get at the framebuffer.
I'm sure there's a good reason to not do that in general. Mind
enlightening me?
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