linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging/gma500: get control from firmware framebuffer if conflicts

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Date:	Fri, 27 May 2011 09:56:07 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Michael Chang <mchang@...ell.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, error27@...il.com,
	justinmattock@...il.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/gma500: get control from firmware framebuffer
 if conflicts

> We should let psbfb takeover framebuffer control from vesafb
> to get around this problem.

Looks good to me assuming we have stolen memory. This maybe wants to
test

	if (pg->stolen_size)

although I'm not sure that adding a zero size aperture would do harm
any way ? The devices without stolen ram also won't have vesa.

Alan
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