This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfb: fix video mode and line_length being set when loaded
to the 4.9-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:
vfb-fix-video-mode-and-line_length-being-set-when-loaded.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: "Pieter \\\"PoroCYon\\\" Sluys" <pcy@national.shitposting.agency>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:53:50 +0100
Subject: vfb: fix video mode and line_length being set when loaded
From: "Pieter \\\"PoroCYon\\\" Sluys" <pcy@national.shitposting.agency>
[ Upstream commit 7b9faf5df0ac495a1a3d7cdb64921c179f9008ac ]
Currently, when loading the vfb module, the newly created fbdev
has a line_length of 0, and its video mode would be PSEUDOCOLOR
regardless of color depth. (The former could be worked around by
calling the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO ioctl with having the FBACTIVIATE_FORCE
flag set.) This patch automatically sets the line_length correctly,
and the video mode is derived from the bit depth now as well.
Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for confirming the bug and helping me with
the patch.
Output of `fbset -i' before the patch:
mode "1366x768-60"
# D: 72.432 MHz, H: 47.403 kHz, V: 60.004 Hz
geometry 1366 768 1366 768 32
timings 13806 120 10 14 3 32 5
rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : Virtual FB
Address : 0xffffaa1405d85000
Size : 4196352
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 1
LineLength : 0 <-- note this
Accelerator : No
After:
mode "1366x768-60"
# D: 72.432 MHz, H: 47.403 kHz, V: 60.004 Hz
geometry 1366 768 1366 768 32
timings 13806 120 10 14 3 32 5
rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : Virtual FB
Address : 0xffffaa1405d85000
Size : 4196352
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 1
LineLength : 5464
Accelerator : No
Signed-off-by: "Pieter \"PoroCYon\" Sluys" <pcy@national.shitposting.agency>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[b.zolnierkie: minor fixups]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c
@@ -239,8 +239,23 @@ static int vfb_check_var(struct fb_var_s
*/
static int vfb_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
{
+ switch (info->var.bits_per_pixel) {
+ case 1:
+ info->fix.visual = FB_VISUAL_MONO01;
+ break;
+ case 8:
+ info->fix.visual = FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR;
+ break;
+ case 16:
+ case 24:
+ case 32:
+ info->fix.visual = FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;
+ break;
+ }
+
info->fix.line_length = get_line_length(info->var.xres_virtual,
info->var.bits_per_pixel);
+
return 0;
}
@@ -450,6 +465,8 @@ static int vfb_probe(struct platform_dev
goto err2;
platform_set_drvdata(dev, info);
+ vfb_set_par(info);
+
fb_info(info, "Virtual frame buffer device, using %ldK of video memory\n",
videomemorysize >> 10);
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pcy@national.shitposting.agency are
queue-4.9/vfb-fix-video-mode-and-line_length-being-set-when-loaded.patch