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Re: X doesn't work anymore

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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Mihai Chelaru wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:34:03 -0400, Michael wrote:
>> Looks like you updated X but not your kernel. I committed code to allow
>> X to use arbitrary PCI devices no matter in which PCI domain they are
>> without using /dev/mem - you will need to update your kernel with
>> options PCI_ALLOW_MMAP
>> then things should work again.
>
> Cool, radeon driver started to work again with this option. Care to
> document it somewhere ?

Should this option be included in GENERIC?

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