From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: fbcon & resize
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:44:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085366682.24948.22.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B159B1.9050108@undead.cc>
> >We need to cleanup and generalize a function for matching a mode to
> >the mode list to be used by drivers for validation in check_var() too,
> >my current algorithm in radeonfb is a bit broken for CRTs for example,
> >and has the nasty habit of refusing modes rather than "adapting" them.
> >
> >
> I'm curious as to what you mean by "adapting" them.
Well, I'm getting complaints regulary when radeonfb refuses a mode
(via set_var) that has out of range timings instead of picking a
closer one. I'm not fully sure this is the right way to do though...
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-24 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-24 1:08 fbcon & resize Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-24 2:10 ` John Zielinski
2004-05-24 2:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-05-24 3:11 ` John Zielinski
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