On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 15:38, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/28/18 10:12 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 at 16:34, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 07:37:01AM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >>> Author: eadler
> >>> Date: Sat Jul 28 07:37:01 2018
> >>> New Revision: 336805
> >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336805
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   MFC r335629:
> >>>
> >>>   vt: add option to ignore NO_VGA flag in ACPI
> >>>
> >>>   To workaround buggy firmware that sets this flag when there's actually
> >>>   a VGA present.
> >>>
> >>>   Ref D16003
> >>>   PR:         229235
> >>>
> >>> Modified:
> >>>   stable/11/share/man/man4/vt.4
> >>>   stable/11/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
> >>> Directory Properties:
> >>>   stable/11/   (props changed)
> >>>
> >>> Modified: stable/11/share/man/man4/vt.4
> >>> ==============================================================================
> >>> --- stable/11/share/man/man4/vt.4     Sat Jul 28 06:46:10 2018        
> >>> (r336804)
> >>> +++ stable/11/share/man/man4/vt.4     Sat Jul 28 07:37:01 2018        
> >>> (r336805)
> >>> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
> >>>  In
> >>>  .Xr loader.conf 5 :
> >>>  .Cd hw.vga.textmode=1
> >>> +.Cd hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga=1
> >>>  .Cd kern.vty=vt
> >>>  .Cd kern.vt.color.<colornum>.rgb="<colorspec>"
> >>>  .Cd kern.vt.fb.default_mode="<X>x<Y>"
> >>> @@ -196,6 +197,10 @@ prompt or in
> >>>  Set to 1 to use virtual terminals in text mode instead of graphics mode.
> >>>  Features that require graphics mode, like loadable fonts, will be
> >>>  disabled.
> >>> +.It Va hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga
> >>> +Set to 1 to force the usage of the VGA driver regardless of whether
> >>> +ACPI IAPC_BOOT_ARCH signals no VGA support.
> >>> +Can be used to workaround firmware bugs in the ACPI tables.
> >>>  .It Va kern.vty
> >>>  Set this value to
> >>>  .Ql vt
> >>>
> >>> Modified: stable/11/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
> >>> ==============================================================================
> >>> --- stable/11/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c      Sat Jul 28 06:46:10 2018    
> >>>     (r336804)
> >>> +++ stable/11/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c      Sat Jul 28 07:37:01 2018    
> >>>     (r336805)
> >>> @@ -1211,6 +1211,12 @@ vga_acpi_disabled(void)
> >>>       ACPI_TABLE_FADT *fadt;
> >>>       vm_paddr_t physaddr;
> >>>       uint16_t flags;
> >>> +     int ignore;
> >>> +
> >>> +     TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("hw.vga.acpi_ignore_no_vga", &ignore);
> >>> +
> >>> +     if (ignore)
> >>> +         return (false);
> >
> >> If the tunable is not set, this code evaluates the stack garbage.
> >> Why did you merged this without asking the author and not looking
> >> at the followups ?
> >
> > Please assume some level of good faith.
> >
> > I MFCed this because I was asked to here
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229235 over a month
> > ago. During that time no one mentioned or linked any followups. I did
> > look in my email for mentions of r335629 as well - of which there are
> > none.
> >
> > Now that you mention it, I looked at the svn log and found r335631
> > which I will MFC as well.
>
> If MFC'ing a change by another developer you should proactively look at
> the svn logs of the changed files to see if there are follow up fixes.

I did this, but looked by bug ID and by revision ID. Could I have
found r335631 if I had looked at svn logs too? yes. Is it appropriate
to say I did not look for followups? no

Anyways, -stable is good now so this is my last response to the thread.


--
Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams
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