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Message-ID: <CAMVG2svQkEZtz_kod-ifp1y=pwOPa4ZyRnsayf=oyzHzyRsotw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:39:33 +0800
From:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ra.org>
To:	sedat.dilek@...il.com
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: 3.8-rc2: EFI framebuffer lock inversion...

On 3 January 2013 22:11, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> just wanted to test the fb-fix [2] from Alan and followed the thread in [1].
> Me is also working with i915 KMS.
>
> I looked at nouveau KMS driver and adapted the part for i915:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-200-      /* remove conflicting
> drivers (vesafb, efifb etc) */
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c:201:      aper = alloc_apertures(3);
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-202-      if (!aper)
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c-203-              return -ENOMEM;
>
> Untested by me, feel free to test.
>
> Maybe some of the i915 and/or fb driver experts can comment on the problem.

The structure array from alloc_apertures is just used for the PCI base
address registers, so it's important here.

I'll take a look at the efifb locking later.

Thanks,
  Daniel
-- 
Daniel J Blueman
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