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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:38:18PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:04 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >   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?
> 
> Best would be to put the patches into -fixes from the start.

Sure, but that ship is sailed in this case.

> Cherry pick works too, if it's not too invasive.

All 4 patches are clean cherry-picks, so I did that.

thanks,
  Gerd