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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:14:06 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com> Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible on pci systems. On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:16:48 -0400 Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com> wrote: > Some Apple machines have identical DMI data but different memory > configurations for the video. Given that, check that the address in our > table is actually within the range of a PCI BAR on a VGA deivce in the > machine. > > This also fixes up the return value from set_system(), which has > always been wrong, but never resulted in bad behavior since there's only > ever been one matching entry in the dmi table. > > This also adds me as the efifb maintainer, since I've effectively been > acting as such for quite some time. And what is the impact (and importance) of this patch? Make some people's Mac displays work, I'd be guessing? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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