From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:14:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible Message-Id: <20100910171406.bdb4d90d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Id: References: <1284059809-9973-1-git-send-email-pjones@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1284059809-9973-1-git-send-email-pjones@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Jones Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:16:48 -0400 Peter Jones 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?