Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] framebuffer: simple conversions to arch_phys_wc_add()

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:50:38AM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
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> 
> On 14/05/15 17:26, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> > Tomi,
> > 
> > Any chance you can consider this series again? I realize you say you are
> > not familiar with MTRR but given its prevalence use on framebuffer device
> > drivers and since you are a framebuffer subsystem maintainer I think its
> > perhaps fair to ask one of you become familiar with this stuff, or ask
> > questions if there are any. If its of any help this patch which adds
> > ioremap_uc() already got merged and the logic to phase MTRR is described
> > there too:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?idäb6be33c28923d8cde53023e0888b1c5d1a9027
> > 
> > That patch won't even be needed on this series, this series happens to be
> > straight forward: if you just ioremap_nocache() once and use mtrr_add()
> > then conver over to ioremap_wc() and use arch_phys_wc_add(). If it already
> > used ioremap_wc() just convert over from mtrr_add() to arch_phys_wc_add()
> > 
> > Not sure if you will get an Acked-by by x86 folks on this series as they
> > are busy, but I'm adding bp and hpa just in case.
> 
> These are now queued for 4.2. Sorry it took so long. I've been away and
> my bandwidth for the fbdev maintainership has been rather limited lately.

Great thanks for the heads up!

  Luis