Bug 14461

Summary:	If /proc unmounted, vesa driver crashes the system [VIA]
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Ryan Underwood <nemesis>
Component:	Driver/Vesa	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3 (2007.09)
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Ryan Underwood 2008-02-11 13:09:07 UTC

I'm not sure whether to blame this on the VIA BIOS or on VESA.

If /proc is not mounted, the linear framebuffer is detected at 0xfffffff0 for some reason, and the result is a total system crash.

If /proc is mounted, no problems.

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2008-02-24 16:06:57 UTC

That's special.  We really don't support running without /proc mounted, sorry.  But we should probably fail more politely.

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2008-03-10 16:17:37 UTC

Meh.  "Don't do that" for 7.4.

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2014-03-21 18:47:02 UTC

We're not looking in /proc for pci anymore, so I'm calling this fixed.  Please reopen if this is still an issue for you.

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