@@ -505,7 +505,14 @@ static int __devinit via_pci_setup_mmio(struct viafb_dev *vdev)
ret = vdev->fbmem_len = viafb_get_fb_size_from_pci(vdev->chip_type);
if (ret < 0)
goto out_unmap;
- vdev->fbmem = ioremap_wc(vdev->fbmem_start, vdev->fbmem_len);
+
+ /* try to map less memory on failure, 8 MB should be still enough */
+ for (; vdev->fbmem_len >= 8 << 20; vdev->fbmem_len /= 2) {
+ vdev->fbmem = ioremap_wc(vdev->fbmem_start, vdev->fbmem_len);
+ if (vdev->fbmem)
+ break;
+ }
+
if (vdev->fbmem == NULL) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out_unmap;
The current code might result in trying to remap 512MB video ram on a 32 bit system which is quite likely to fail. This patch tries to map less of it down to 8MB as this should still be enough to get a reasonably well working framebuffer. This should make viafb work for many people without requiring them to manually allocate more space. Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> --- drivers/video/via/via-core.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)