From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-geode@bombadil.infradead.org,
Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@LiPPERT-AT.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jordan.crouse@amd.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: lxfb driver regression
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:11:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080507181140.ecea2305.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080507210836.1eb61b8f@ephemeral>
On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:08:36 -0400 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that a patch from you went into 2.6.26-rc1 to adjust the PLL table
> in the lxfb driver. Unfortunately, it breaks on OLPC machines (I haven't
> tested it on other Geode platforms yet, but I don't have any other Geodes
> with panels anyways). It's this commit:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3888d4639e78802c4ec1086127124e890461b9e4
>
> Without this patch, I get the following (correct) output from the lxfb
> and console code:
>
> [ 0.939827] lxfb 0000:00:01.1: 16384 KB of video memory at 0xfd000000
> [ 1.009194] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 150x56
>
> Without it, the cols/width is screwy (and I get a blank white screen):
>
> [ 20.706836] lxfb 0000:00:01.1: 16384 KB of video memory at 0xfd000000
> [ 20.788538] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x40
I queued a reversion but (as is often the case with non-critical
regressions) I'll hold off for a few days, see if we can get things fixed
up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-08 1:08 lxfb driver regression Andres Salomon
2008-05-08 1:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-08 13:56 ` Jens Rottmann
2008-05-08 14:48 ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-09 10:33 ` Jens Rottmann
2008-05-08 15:06 ` Jordan Crouse
2008-05-12 22:51 ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-13 10:29 ` Jens Rottmann
2008-05-13 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-13 16:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 17:50 ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-13 17:55 ` Andres Salomon
2008-05-13 20:05 ` Jordan Crouse
2008-05-14 12:44 ` Jens Rottmann
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