Re: framebuffer corruption due to overlapping stp instructions on arm64

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Sun Aug 05 2018 - 14:33:15 EST


On 08/04/2018 01:04 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
There's plenty of memcpy's in the graphics stack. No one will be rewriting
all the graphics drivers because of tiny market share that ARM has in
desktop computers. So if you refuse to fix things and blame everyone else,
you can as well announce that you don't want to have PCIe graphics on ARM
at all.

The POWER toolchain maintainers said pretty much the same thing not too long ago. I wonder how many architectures need to fail until the graphics stack is finally fixed.

Thanks,
Florian