Re: [PATCH] Use MTRRs by default for vesafb on x86-64

[Jamie Lokier]

Dave Jones wrote:
>  > My point being that vesafb is used for maximum compatibility, when you
>  > have no other way to drive an unknown framebuffer.  It's the emergency
>  > backup driver.  Shouldn't it be robust when faced with an unknown
>  > framebuffer type, new or old?
> 
> It works just fine. Just you can't enable MTRRs for framebuffer memory.
> Losing a bit of performance for what is (by todays standards) a crap
> performing card anyways, is no big deal.

How do you know the blacklist is complete?

That's my point: with most drivers we accept a few surprises and
change the code, but vesafb is supposed to handle any old crap card
that's thrown at it, as robustly as possible.

-- Jamie