[PATCH 14/14] Documentation: Update the todo

[Anusha Srivatsa]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
wrote:

> Hi Maxime
>
>
> Am 29.01.25 um 15:31 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 02:06:15PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> >> Am 28.01.25 um 23:29 schrieb Anusha Srivatsa:
> >>> Remove the TODO now that this series addresses
> >>> the changes needed.
> >> While your series is fine, this TODO item is unrelated. It's about
> various
> >> ancient fbdev drivers that do not reserve their memory regions
> correctly. So
> >> please drop patch 14 form the series.
> > Is it? Could we rephrase the entry then? I'm the one that suggested
> > Anusha to work on this, and it's still not clear to me what it means
> > exactly if it's not what she worked on :)
>
> I guess, we could make this more precise.
>
> Some old graphics drivers don't request their memory ranges correctly.
> It's usually a problem with hardware that has exclusive ranges, such as
> the VGA. Vga16fb doesn't request the range as it should. Someone needs
> to audit all those old drivers and fix them.
>
>
This sounds like a good next approach. I will make the documentation more
clear.

Thanks for feedback everyone!

Anusha

> Best regards
> Thomas
>
>
> >
> > Maxime
>
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