Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.19 01/16] Drivers: hv: Never allocate anything besides framebuffer from framebuffer memory region

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sat Sep 24 2022 - 23:18:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 06:17:34PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit f0880e2cb7e1f8039a048fdd01ce45ab77247221 ]


(this comment applies to all stable branches)

While this change seems to be worthy on its own, the underlying issue
with Gen1 Hyper-V VMs won't be resolved without

commit 2a8a8afba0c3053d0ea8686182f6b2104293037e
Author: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Aug 27 15:03:44 2022 +0200

Drivers: hv: Always reserve framebuffer region for Gen1 VMs

as 'fb_mmio' is still going to be unset in some cases without it.

Which seems to fail building. Backports welcome :)

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Thanks,
Sasha