[PATCH] DRM/Radeon: Set depth on low mem Radeon cards to 16 instead of 8.

[Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>]

The Radeon driver reduces the framebuffer resolution to 8bpp if
a device with less than 32 Mb VRAM is found. This causes the
framebuffer to run in 8 bit paletted mode. For a text console this
is not an issue as 256 different colors is more than one gets
on a VGA text console.
It is done to give X more memory to work with since the console memory
is not freed but remains allocated while X is active.
Still, running the fbdev Xserver driver - which we do during installation
- will give applications an 8bit pseudo-color visual which doesn't look
too pretty.
We therefore limit the framebuffer bpp to 16 when memory is 24MB or lower
and to 8 only if 8MB or less VRAM is found.
This should be a reasonable compromise for us.
This patch will most likely not ever make it upstream.

This works around ugly modes on crappy IPMI cards using ES1000.

Signed-off-by: Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c
index cc8489d..9e8e221 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fb.c
@@ -356,9 +356,12 @@ int radeon_fbdev_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
 	int bpp_sel = 32;
 	int ret;
 
-	/* select 8 bpp console on RN50 or 16MB cards */
-	if (ASIC_IS_RN50(rdev) || rdev->mc.real_vram_size <= (32*1024*1024))
+	/* select 16 bpp console on RN50 or 32MB cards */
+	if (rdev->mc.real_vram_size <= (8*1024*1024))
 		bpp_sel = 8;
+	else if (ASIC_IS_RN50(rdev)
+		  || rdev->mc.real_vram_size <= (32*1024*1024))
+		bpp_sel = 16;
 
 	rfbdev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct radeon_fbdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rfbdev)
-- 
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