Re: [PATCH 1/3] fb-defio: If FBINFO_VIRTFB is defined, do not setVM_IO flag.

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 14:05:43 EST


On 12/03/09 10:56, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:50:15AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> On 12/03/09 07:31, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>
>>> Most users (except sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c) get their framebuffer from
>>> vmalloc. Setting VM_IO is not necessary as the memory obtained
>>> from vmalloc is System RAM type and is not susceptible to PCI memory
>>> constraints.
>>>
>>>
>> Looks good, but you forgot signoffs on these. Do you want me to add them?
>>
> Duh!! Please do. Thank you for noticing it.
>

Already done ;) Will merge into xen/master shortly. I'd like to queue
this up for this merge window if Jaya is OK with it, and also mark for
stable. Though I think fbdev overall is currently considered
maintainerless...

J
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