Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] video: fbdev: atyfb: only use ioremap_uc() on i386 and ia64

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Wed Mar 08 2023 - 18:13:55 EST


On Wednesday 08 March 2023 21:01:09 Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 09:07:07PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ioremap_uc() is only meaningful on old x86-32 systems with the PAT
> > extension, and on ia64 with its slightly unconventional ioremap()
> > behavior, everywhere else this is the same as ioremap() anyway.
> >
> > Change the only driver that still references ioremap_uc() to only do so
> > on x86-32/ia64 in order to allow removing that interface at some
> > point in the future for the other architectures.
> >
> > On some architectures, ioremap_uc() just returns NULL, changing
> > the driver to call ioremap() means that they now have a chance
> > of working correctly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Is anyone using this driver these days? How often do fbdev drivers get
> audited to see what can be nuked?

Older servers have integrated ATI Rage XL chips and this is the only driver for it.

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Ondrej Zary