On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> 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 > > -- > -- > Thomas Zimmermann > Graphics Driver Developer > SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH > Frankenstrasse 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany > GF: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Boudien Moerman > HRB 36809 (AG Nuernberg) > >
