Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > I was trying 4.13.0-rc5-00075-gac9a40905a61 on my PowerMac G4 with 1G >> > RAM and after some time of sddm respawning and X trying to restart, >> > dmesg is full of messages about vmap allocation failures. >> >> Did it just start happening? ie. did rc4 work? > > It goes back to at least 4.0 - that's the oldest kernel I had laying > around precompiled. The messages about ROM signature changed somewehere > between 4.0 and 4.7 (4.7 is already like 4.13) but after some time, the > same vmalloc errors appear. > > Maybe the userspace has changed with more respawning that brings the > problem out. > > I tried to read the code but I do not understand it yet. The warning > seems to come from generic pci_map_rom() checking ROM size, and > returning rom pointer to aty128fb (it returns resource size too but that > is ignored). aty128fb starts to look at the x86 PCI ROM signature again > but does not tell that the signature is missing. How come? OK thanks. Unfortunately I can't really help on the graphics side of things. Hopefully someone on Cc has more clues than me. cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
