On 09/05/2019 21:48, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On some machines (for example Thinkpad P52), UEFI GOP reports
> framebuffer located above 4GB (0x4000000000 on that machine). This
> address does not fit in {xen,dom0}_vga_console_info.u.vesa_lfb.lfb_base
> field, which is 32bit. The overflow here cause all kind of memory
> corruption when anything tries to write something on the screen,
> starting with zeroing the whole framebuffer in vesa_init().
>
> Fix this similar to how it's done in Linux: add ext_lfb_base field at
> the end of the structure, to hold upper 32bits of the address. Since the
> field is added at the end of the structure, it will work with older
> Linux versions too (other than using possibly truncated address - no
> worse than without this change). Thanks to ABI containing size of the
> structure (start_info.console.dom0.info_size), Linux can detect when
> this field is present and use it appropriately then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com>
Public interface part:
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
Juergen
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