From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:55:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM In-Reply-To: References: <1286444662-16843-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <20101009092127.GB20975@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201010091311.26335.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20101009115551.GA19947@infradead.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:43:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > I'm guessing some closed source graphics drivers for ARM do all kinds > of wrong crap, and Nokia use them a lot, and nobody wants to tell the > closed vendors to change their drivers because it costs money. In which case Russell's message to tell them to sodd off is exactly the right thing to do. I've never figured out why Felipe cars so much, but if he's one of the users of utterly buggy binary drivers that would explain his weird actions here. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755539Ab0JIL4D (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:56:03 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:38937 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754881Ab0JIL4B (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:56:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 07:55:51 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Airlie Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Felipe Contreras , Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Hannemann , Hemant Pedanekar , Greg KH , linux-main , Uwe Kleine-K?nig , Han Jonghun Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM Message-ID: <20101009115551.GA19947@infradead.org> References: <1286444662-16843-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <20101009092127.GB20975@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201010091311.26335.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:43:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > I'm guessing some closed source graphics drivers for ARM do all kinds > of wrong crap, and Nokia use them a lot, and nobody wants to tell the > closed vendors to change their drivers because it costs money. In which case Russell's message to tell them to sodd off is exactly the right thing to do. I've never figured out why Felipe cars so much, but if he's one of the users of utterly buggy binary drivers that would explain his weird actions here.