Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix locking harder

2013-01-25 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Dave Airlie airl...@gmail.com wrote: Okay so Alan's patch handled the case where there was no registered fbcon, however the other path entered in set_con2fb_map pit. In there we called fbcon_takeover, but we also took the console lock in a couple of places.

Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer

2012-08-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of days to finding the problem. Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting