Bug 99127

Summary:	libpciaccess 0.13.4.10.r294.g099489b - incompatible with linux after version 4.4
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	James <james>
Component:	Lib/pciaccess	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description James 2016-12-17 16:17:14 UTC

Please see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98158

The sis driver fails with "SiSMapMem() failed", but this appears to be caused by an incompatibility between libpciaccess pci_device_map_range() and newer linux kernels after 4.4.

Comment 1 James 2017-04-04 20:40:37 UTC

Problem is triggered by:

 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90a545e981267e917b9d698ce07affd69787db87

which suggests:
Any application using /dev/mem or mmap of
sysfs pci resources will now need to perform the extra step of either:
1/ Disabling the driver, for example:
   echo <device id> > /dev/bus/<parent bus>/drivers/<driver name>/unbind
...

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-10 20:18:56 UTC

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