Re: [PATCH] framebuffer: fix screen corruption when copying

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Mikulas,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The patch also removes the references to fb_memmove in the code that is
> commented out because fb_memmove was removed from framebuffer subsystem.

I'd leave it as-is. Using plain memmove() is not correct, as it should operate
on MMIO space, not RAM. On x86 it works with memmove(), though, but
not on all architectures.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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