[PATCH v2 0/6] Unmappable DRM client buffers for fbdev emulation

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Aug 1 07:04:52 UTC 2019


  Hi,

> and removes a large amount of framebuffer code from these drivers. For
> bochs, a problem was reported where the driver could not display the console
> because it was pinned in system memory. [1] The patch set fixes this bug
> by converting bochs to use the shadow fb.

So, bochs in 5.3-rcX is broken, and patches 1+2+3+5 of this series unbreak
it.  Series already landed in drm-misc-next, but that doesn't help bochs
in 5.3.

What is the usual way to handle this?
Just cherry-pick the four patches into drm-misc-fixes and push?

thanks,
  Gerd



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