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    parisc: sticon - unbreak on 64bit kernel · 0219132f
    Helge Deller authored
    STI text console (sticon) was broken on 64bit machines with more than
    4GB RAM and this lead in some cases to a kernel crash.
    
    Since sticon uses the 32bit STI API it needs to keep pointers to memory
    below 4GB. But on a 64bit kernel some memory regions (e.g. the kernel
    stack) might be above 4GB which then may crash the kernel in the STI
    functions.
    
    Additionally sticon didn't selected the built-in framebuffer fonts by
    default. This is now fixed.
    
    On a side-note: Theoretically we could enhance the sticon driver to
    use the 64bit STI API. But - beside the fact that some machines don't
    provide a 64bit STI ROM - this would just add complexity.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8+
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