At the moment i work on implementing Machine detection through DMI
and make the driver loadable as module. I know that the driver is
not perfekt, but a good starting point :)
cu
Edgar (gimli) Hucek
Dave Jones schrieb:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:03:02PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
> > commit 90b4f9aca4d124d114e02bbb3d1d4f3d1d47138f
> > tree e367b2fd3ad08b706bd7825c6251a95284f3bb76
> > parent 1a8c9795290361cef232fd54f425a57d143108a8
> > author Edgar Hucek <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:26:59 -0700
> > committer Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:58:32 -0700
> >
> > [PATCH] imacfb: Add Intel-based Macintosh Framebuffer Support
> >
> > This patch adds a new framebuffer driver for the Intel Based macs. This
> > framebuffer is needed when booting from EFI to get something out the box.
> >
> > [akpm: note: doesn't support modular building]
>
> This scares me from a distro kernel point of view too, because
> it does no probing that it's actually running on a mac, (be that
> through DMI strings or PCI idents). Instead if it hasn't been
> passed a boot option, it sets model to 'M_NEW'....
>
> > + case M_NEW:
> > + case M_I20:
> > + screen_info.lfb_width = 1680;
> > + screen_info.lfb_height = 1050;
> > + screen_info.lfb_linelength = 1728 * 4;
> > + screen_info.lfb_base = 0x80010000;
> > + break;
>
> And then assumes it can scribble at 0x80010000.
>
> Whilst in most cases the request_region that follows is going to fail,
> the possibility exists that something entirely different could be
> mapped there, guaranteeing fun times should Apple ever do something
> silly like, mapping the NVRAM there..
>
> Dave
>
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