[PATCH] ARM: allow, but warn, when issuing ioremap() on RAM

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Oct 9 07:55:51 EDT 2010


On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 09:43:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> I'm guessing some closed source graphics drivers for ARM do all kinds
> of wrong crap, and Nokia use them a lot, and nobody wants to tell the
> closed vendors to change their drivers because it costs money.

In which case Russell's message to tell them to sodd off is exactly the
right thing to do.  I've never figured out why Felipe cars so much, but
if he's one of the users of utterly buggy binary drivers that would
explain his weird actions here.




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