Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/boot: fix early error display

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.10.17 at 23:05, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/18/17 4:50 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 17.10.17 at 23:41, <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: David Esler <drumandstrum@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> In 9180f5365524 a change was made to the send_chr function to take in
>>> C-strings and print out a character at a time until a NULL was
>>> encountered. However there is no code to increment the current character
>>> position resulting in an endless loop of the first character. This adds
>>> a simple increment.
>> 
>> This description is not accurate (it should have changed together with
>> the change to how you fix the issue) - with VGA the increment does
>> happen. Hence "display" in the title is perhaps also at least misleading.
>> I would be fine to adjust both while committing (and then adding my
>> R-b), but feel free to propose an alternative.
> 
> Jan,
> 
> Can you queue this for 4.9 as well? That's where we ran into the issue
> in the first place.

That how I did understand it, so I've queued this already, but for
it to become eligible to applying to 4.9 it first needs to pass the
push gate on master.

Jan


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