On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Maxime
Am 29.01.25 um 15:31 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 02:06:15PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Am 28.01.25 um 23:29 schrieb Anusha Srivatsa:
>>> Remove the TODO now that this series addresses
>>> the changes needed.
>> While your series is fine, this TODO item is unrelated. It's about various
>> ancient fbdev drivers that do not reserve their memory regions correctly. So
>> please drop patch 14 form the series.
> Is it? Could we rephrase the entry then? I'm the one that suggested
> Anusha to work on this, and it's still not clear to me what it means
> exactly if it's not what she worked on :)
I guess, we could make this more precise.
Some old graphics drivers don't request their memory ranges correctly.
It's usually a problem with hardware that has exclusive ranges, such as
the VGA. Vga16fb doesn't request the range as it should. Someone needs
to audit all those old drivers and fix them.
This sounds like a good next approach. I will make the documentation more clear.
Thanks for feedback everyone!
Anusha
Best regards
Thomas
>
> Maxime
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