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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] olpc: fix model detection without OFW
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:32:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090214173237.29407661@ephemeral> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090214221429.GB5200@elte.hu>

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:14:29 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
[...]
> Where did my git grepping skills go wrong?
> 
> I git-grepped the code and this is the scope i found:
> 
> olpc_platform_info.boardrev is used for:
> 
>  - a printk
>  - olpc_board_at_least() which is used in:
>     - drivers/input/mouse/hgpk.c:                mouse driver quirk
>     - sound/pci/cs5535audio/cs5535audio_olpc.c:  audio quirk
> 
> aha. I missed this roundabout impact:
> 
>     - arch/x86/kernel/olpc.c:                    OLPC_F_DCON flag
>       - which is used in olpc_has_dcon(), which is used in:
>         - drivers/video/geode/gxfb_core.c:       GX modes db
>                                                  [ouch if this goes
> wrong!]
>         - drivers/video/geode/lxfb_core.c:       ditto
> 
> So i guess the mouse and audio quirk point was correct too, but the
> major impact is the graphics mode array mismatch and the resulting
> nonsensical mode setting, right?
> 
> 	Ingo


Yep.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-14 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-23 22:20 [PATCH] olpc: fix endian bug in openfirmware workaround Harvey Harrison
2008-09-24  7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-14  1:56 ` [PATCH] olpc: fix model detection without OFW Chris Ball
2009-02-14  4:19   ` Andres Salomon
2009-02-14 21:43     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-14 21:53       ` Andres Salomon
2009-02-14 22:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-14 22:32           ` Andres Salomon [this message]

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