Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:42:27 -0400 | From | Peter Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make efifb check that the base address is plausible on pci systems. |
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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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