On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 03:40:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > Linus, this came up a while back I finally got some confirmation
> > that it fixes those servers.
>
> I'm certainly ok with this. which way should it go in? The users are:
On 01/28/2015 11:11 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> These two copy to/from VGA memory, however on the Silicon
> Motion SMI750 VGA card on a 64-bit system cause console corruption.
>
> This is due to the hw being buggy and not handling a 64-bit transaction
> correctly.
>
> We could try and create a 32-bi
On 30 January 2015 at 10:03, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> wrote:
>>
>> I can take this through the tty tree, but can I put it in linux-next and
>> wait for the 3.20 merge window to give people who might notice a
>> slow-down a chance to object?
>
>
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
wrote:
>
> I can take this through the tty tree, but can I put it in linux-next and
> wait for the 3.20 merge window to give people who might notice a
> slow-down a chance to object?
Yes. The problem only affects one (or a couple of) truly outra
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> Linus, this came up a while back I finally got some confirmation
> that it fixes those servers.
I'm certainly ok with this. which way should it go in? The users are:
- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c (Greg KH, "tty layer")
- drivers/video/console/*
