Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.9 bug: linux logo not displayed in vga16fb (bug found)

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:54, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > I used to have a nice vga boot logo with my 2.6.7 kernel, but with the
> > 2.6.9, my
> > boot logo has disappeared (same .config)...
> > It seems to switch to VGA, and some space is reserved for the logo, but
> > it is not displayed.
> > The logo appears with vesafb.
>
> I made a few diffs between my old working 2.6.7 kernel and the 2.6.9 and
> found something interesting in fbmem.c:
>

Should be fixed in the mm tree or the latest bk snapshot. Or you can try this
very patch.

Tony

diff -uprN linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4-orig/drivers/video/vga16fb.c linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4/drivers/video/vga16fb.c
--- linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4-orig/drivers/video/vga16fb.c	2004-09-07 21:18:35.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4/drivers/video/vga16fb.c	2004-09-07 21:30:39.059300648 +0800
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ void vga16fb_imageblit(struct fb_info *i
 {
 	if (image->depth == 1)
 		vga_imageblit_expand(info, image);
-	else if (image->depth <= info->var.bits_per_pixel)
+	else
 		vga_imageblit_color(info, image);
 }