[PATCH] mgag200 fix memmapsl configuration in GCTL6 register
Javier Martinez Canillas
javierm at redhat.com
Tue Jan 18 17:17:06 UTC 2022
On 1/18/22 17:52, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
> On 18/01/2022 17:38, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Jocelyn,
>>
>> On 1/14/22 10:47, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
>
>>
>> My worry is if this could cause other issues so I would only do this change
>> if (is_kdump_kernel()), to make it as non intrusive as possible. And also
>> add a verbose comment about why this is needed.
>
> This change must be done in the "first" kernel, so that when kdump
> starts, it doesn't hang the machine by writing to the VGA interface, in
> the early boot code.
>
Ah, got it. The patch then makes sense to me as is in that case.
My comment about documenting why this is needed still applies though.
Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat
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