[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#675940: fglrx-driver: fglrx crashes with X server 1.12 on 64bit architecture

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-07-16 15:50, The Wanderer wrote:
> According to the ati.cchtml.com bug, this is actually a problem with
> libpciaccess not handling 64-bit pointers correctly in some cases. The
> patch

No. libpciaccess gets passed incorrect 64bit pointers.

> available there is a patch for libpciaccess, described by its author as
> an "ugly
> hack" (on which I agree, as it seems to be hardware-specific to some
> degree).

The binary blobs are passing invalid pointers, the blobs can't be
patched, only the receiving side can be patched to work around the
invalid input data.

> As such, shouldn't this bug be redirected to the libpciaccess0 package?

No.

Andreas