On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:45:43PM +0200, Max Staudt wrote: > When using efifb with a 16-bit (5:6:5) visual, fbcon's text is rendered > in the wrong colors - e.g. text gray (#aaaaaa) is rendered as green > (#50bc50) and neighboring pixels have slightly different values > (such as #50bc78). > > The reason is that fbcon loads its 16 color palette through > efifb_setcolreg(), which in turn calculates a 32-bit value to write > into memory for each palette index. > Until now, this code could only handle 8-bit visuals and didn't mask > overlapping values when ORing them. > > With this patch, fbcon displays the correct colors when a qemu VM is > booted in 16-bit mode (in GRUB: "set gfxpayload=800x600x16"). > > Signed-off-by: Max Staudt <mstaudt@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > <formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. </formletter> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html