From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100910171406.bdb4d90d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284059809-9973-1-git-send-email-pjones@redhat.com>
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:16:48 -0400
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> Some Apple machines have identical DMI data but different memory
> configurations for the video. Given that, check that the address in our
> table is actually within the range of a PCI BAR on a VGA deivce in the
> machine.
>
> This also fixes up the return value from set_system(), which has
> always been wrong, but never resulted in bad behavior since there's only
> ever been one matching entry in the dmi table.
>
> This also adds me as the efifb maintainer, since I've effectively been
> acting as such for quite some time.
And what is the impact (and importance) of this patch? Make some
people's Mac displays work, I'd be guessing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-11 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-09 19:16 [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible on pci systems Peter Jones
2010-09-09 19:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] efifb: support the EFI framebuffer on more Apple hardware Peter Jones
2010-09-11 0:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-09-13 14:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible Peter Jones
2010-09-13 14:52 ` Peter Jones
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