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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible on pci systems.
On 09/10/2010 08:14 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:16:48 -0400
> Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Some Apple machines have identical DMI data but different memory
>> configurations for the video. Given that, check that the address in our
>> table is actually within the range of a PCI BAR on a VGA deivce in the
>> machine.
>>
>> This also fixes up the return value from set_system(), which has
>> always been wrong, but never resulted in bad behavior since there's only
>> ever been one matching entry in the dmi table.
>>
>> This also adds me as the efifb maintainer, since I've effectively been
>> acting as such for quite some time.
>
> And what is the impact (and importance) of this patch? Make some
> people's Mac displays work, I'd be guessing?
>

That's correct.

--
Peter

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
-- Pratchett

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