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On a Thinkpad s30 (Pentium III / i440MX, Lynx3DM), the amount of Video RAM is not detected correctly by the xf86-video-siliconmotion driver. This is because sm712fb overwrites the GPR71 Scratch Pad Register, which is set by BIOS on x86 and used to indicate amount of VRAM. Other Scratch Pad Registers, including GPR70/74/75, don't have the same side-effect, but overwriting to them is still questionable, as they are not related to modesetting. Stop writing to SR70/71/74/75 (a.k.a GPR70/71/74/75). Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me> Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+ Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.