linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mdacon: make mda_vram

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:28:57 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, tomi.valkeinen@...com,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mdacon: make mda_vram_base u16 *

On Friday, May 12, 2017 10:08:03 AM Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Given every user of mda_vram_base expects a pointer, let
> mda_vram_base be a pointer to u16.
> 
> The offset calculation in mda_detect had to be adjusted by / 2 (due to
> different pointer arithmetic now).
> 
> We introduce a cast to a value returned from VGA_MAP_MEM. But I will
> change VGA_MAP_MEM to return a pointer later too. But vgacon needs a
> similar change first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
> Cc: <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>

Patch queued for 4.13, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics