* Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 11:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Stephen Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/19/2013 03:13 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> >>> With CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y, probing real hw-drivers may result in
> >>> resource-conflicts and drivers will refuse to load. A call to
> >>> request_mem_region() will fail, if the region overlaps with the mem-region
> >>> used by simplefb. The common desktop DRM drivers (intel, nouveau, radeon)
> >>> are not affected as they don't reserve their resources, but some others
> >>> do, including (nvidiafb, cirrus, ..).
> >>
> >> I have validated that this doesn't cause any regressions on the/a
> >> non-x86 platform using simplefb, although given the main point of this
> >> patch is to fix issues on x86, I'm rather hesitant to give a tested-by
> >> tag in case someone looking back interprets it incorrectly:-)
> >
> > Tested-on-ARM-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
>
> I suppose with CC: stable there's some precedent for a comment after the
> tag, so perhaps:
>
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]> # on ARM only
That works too.
Thanks,
Ingo
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