On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 05:17 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Grant Wilson wrote:
> > 2.6.14-rc1 oops on boot as a result of the patch "nvidiafb: Fallback to
> > firmware EDID".
> >
> Thanks. Try this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c b/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c
> --- a/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c
> @@ -209,10 +209,13 @@ int nvidia_probe_i2c_connector(struct fb
>
> if (!edid && conn == 1) {
> /* try to get from firmware */
> - edid = kmalloc(EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (edid)
> - memcpy(edid, fb_firmware_edid(info->device),
> - EDID_LENGTH);
> + const u8 *e = fb_firmware_edid(info->device);
> +
> + if (e != NULL) {
> + edid = kmalloc(EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (edid)
> + memcpy(edid, e, EDID_LENGTH);
> + }
> }
>
> if (out_edid)
The patch works and the machine now boots and runs without problems -
thank you.
Grant
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Running Linux 2.6.14-rc1 on x86_64
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