Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] vfb + mmap

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Fabien Lebaillif Delamare wrote:
> I send the previous too fast ;-p sorry.
> 
> Does anyone has succeed to do a mmap() on the vfb.
> For me it doesn't work. I always get an adress out of bound.
> 
> Do I have to write a fb_mmap function to handle the vmalloc from the vfb
> or used the default one.

mmap() is known not to work on vfb. After all vfb is just a test driver.

You could make it mmap()able using the code from vga256fb, which was announced
here recently.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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