framebuffer corruption due to overlapping stp instructions on arm64

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Aug 5 18:33:00 GMT 2018


On 08/04/2018 01:04 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> There's plenty of memcpy's in the graphics stack. No one will be rewriting
> all the graphics drivers because of tiny market share that ARM has in
> desktop computers. So if you refuse to fix things and blame everyone else,
> you can as well announce that you don't want to have PCIe graphics on ARM
> at all.

The POWER toolchain maintainers said pretty much the same thing not too 
long ago.  I wonder how many architectures need to fail until the 
graphics stack is finally fixed.

Thanks,
Florian



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