[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 12/13] p2371-2180: Add support for framebuffer carveouts

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Apr 12 02:12:03 UTC 2019


Hi Thierry,

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 01:53, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 02:10, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> >
> > If early firmware initialized the display hardware and the display
> > controllers are scanning out a framebuffer (e.g. a splash screen), make
> > sure to pass information about the memory location of that framebuffer
> > to the kernel before booting to avoid the kernel from using that memory
> > for the buddy allocator.
> >
> > This same mechanism can also be used in the kernel to set up early SMMU
> > mappings and avoid SMMU faults caused by the display controller reading
> > from memory for which it has no mapping.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  board/nvidia/p2371-2180/p2371-2180.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

This doesn't apply for me. Can you please resend it?

Regards,
Simon


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