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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@sabayon.org>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:17:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbmem: fix race condition between register_framebuffer()
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I'm not a fbdev expert. So I leave the real fix to real men ( ;-) ).
It is causing deadlock during boot, so I would consider it quite critical.
Users using any fb driver will get into troubles.
The workaround is to boot with vga=normal.

Cheers,
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Fabio Erculiani