[PATCH v3] efifb: avoid reconfiguration of BAR that covers the framebuffer

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Mar 22 13:00:36 PDT 2017


On 22 March 2017 at 19:57, Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 3/22/2017 3:52 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
[..]
>> If you have working EFIFB on your platform, it works by accident. This
>> patch is needed to ensure that the BAR associated with the EFI
>> framebuffer is left untouched.
>>
>
> I never claimed that. I was just double checking your assumptions.
> I really don't like ARM64 specific PCI code in general. PCI doesn't care
> about CPU type. I hope to see this patch become part of common code.
>

Good! Thanks



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