This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fbdev/efifb: Fix 16 color palette entry calculation
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fbdev-efifb-fix-16-color-palette-entry-calculation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d50b3f43db739f03fcf8c0a00664b3d2fed0496e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Staudt <mstaudt@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:15:59 +0200
Subject: fbdev/efifb: Fix 16 color palette entry calculation
From: Max Staudt <mstaudt@xxxxxxx>
commit d50b3f43db739f03fcf8c0a00664b3d2fed0496e upstream.
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").
Fixes: 7c83172b98e5 ("x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI frame buffer driver") # v2.6.24+
Signed-off-by: Max Staudt <mstaudt@xxxxxxx>
Acked-By: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ static int efifb_setcolreg(unsigned regn
return 1;
if (regno < 16) {
- red >>= 8;
- green >>= 8;
- blue >>= 8;
+ red >>= 16 - info->var.red.length;
+ green >>= 16 - info->var.green.length;
+ blue >>= 16 - info->var.blue.length;
((u32 *)(info->pseudo_palette))[regno] =
(red << info->var.red.offset) |
(green << info->var.green.offset) |
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mstaudt@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/fbdev-efifb-fix-16-color-palette-entry-calculation.patch
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