On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:48 AM, James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Paulius Zaleckas wrote: > >> On 11/20/2009 10:01 PM, James Simmons wrote: >> > >> > > > > > Paulius Zaleckas wrote: >> > > > > > > On drivers using drm_fb_helper's in fb_ops it is not possible to >> > > > > > > change >> > > > > > > video mode, because of different var->pixclock evaluation: ... >> > > > > > >> > > > > > patch: >> > > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg44369.html >> > > > > >> > > > > Those patches will enable fbdev apps to run properly. More patches are >> > > > > needed if you want to support mode switching using the fbdev emulation >> > > > > layer. I noticed my patches and yours where lost. Who do you send >> > > > > patches >> > > > > too that can merge them ? >> > > > >> > > > y:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c >> > > > David Airlie<airlied@xxxxxxxx> >> > > > Dave Airlie<airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > > > Jesse Barnes<jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > > Mikael Pettersson<mikpe@xxxxxxxx> >> > > > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > > >> > > > That's accurate enough. >> > > > >> > > > Generally, if nothing has happened in a week, the chances that it's >> > > > lost are very high. Resend. If you like, cc me and I'll maintain the >> > > > patches >> > > > and resend them for you. >> > > >> > > You can add Tested-by: Paulius Zaleckas<paulius.zaleckas@xxxxxxxxx> >> > > for >> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg44369.html >> > > as this was preventing DirectFB from running on my Asus Eee PC 701. >> > >> > I tested it as well with the both my 3Dfx driver that I wrote with KMS and >> > the nouveau driver. We just need to make sure that the patches end up in >> > the drm-next tree or these patches will be lost when drm-next gets merged >> > to linus tree. >> >> IMHO this patch should end up in current (2.6.32) kernel and we should >> send it to stable ML. > > Honestly I like to see it there as well. > I have them queued for drm-next already at least locally, I wasn't aware they were suitable for final, I didn't get a chance to really test them until last week and make sure they didn't hide any side effects. I can ask for them to go to stable when the merge window opens, I think its too late for final. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
