From: Helge Deller Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 22:38:59 +0000 (+0100) Subject: parisc: sticon - unbreak on 64bit kernel X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.13/fixes-for-merge-window-take2~47^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0219132fe7c26574371232b50db085573f6fbd3f;p=pandora-kernel.git parisc: sticon - unbreak on 64bit kernel STI text console (sticon) was broken on 64bit machines with more than 4GB RAM and this lead in some cases to a kernel crash. Since sticon uses the 32bit STI API it needs to keep pointers to memory below 4GB. But on a 64bit kernel some memory regions (e.g. the kernel stack) might be above 4GB which then may crash the kernel in the STI functions. Additionally sticon didn't selected the built-in framebuffer fonts by default. This is now fixed. On a side-note: Theoretically we could enhance the sticon driver to use the 64bit STI API. But - beside the fact that some machines don't provide a 64bit STI ROM - this would just add complexity. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8+ --- Reading git-diff-tree failed