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

[Ondrej Zary]

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 at arndb.de>
> > 
> > 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 at arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
> > Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> > Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof at kernel.org>
> 
> 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