Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix IO access in rivafb
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2004-11-12 19:33:24
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Guido Guenther wrote:
O.k., it was the __raw_{write,read}b which broke things, not the
"alignment". This one works:All right, that's as expected. However, it does seem to point out that the riva driver depends on _different_ memory ordering guarantees for the 8-bit accesses as opposed to the other ones. Whee. Can you say "UGGLEE"? Anyway, patch applied. Thanks, Linus