From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] viafb: Add 1200x900 DCON/LCD panel modes for OLPC XO-1.5 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:39:30 -0600 Message-ID: <20100418113930.1ba08ee3@bike.lwn.net> References: <1270746946-12467-1-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> <1270746946-12467-8-git-send-email-corbet@lwn.net> <4BBF9BC2.9070502@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BBF9BC2.9070502@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Florian Tobias Schandinat Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Harald Welte , JosephChan@via.com.tw, ScottFang@viatech.com.cn, Deepak Saxena , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:27:30 +0200 Florian Tobias Schandinat wrote: > What will happen if someone with no VX855 will try to enter 1200x900 > mode? Probably the world won't be destroyed but I have a really ugly > feeling that the driver is not well prepared for this situation. OK, I'm certainly exposing my relative lack of understanding of framebuffer issues (I'm here to add a camera driver, remember? :), but...is this really something that older chipsets can't handle? Or is it just that nobody has had that size of panel before? > Haven't > tested yet as I'm waiting for the official forward port but I think it > might be better to reschedule this patch for later or add some PLL > values that are supposed to work (using/executing the formulas in the > VIA open source X driver) If it's really not acceptable, then it will stay out, but I would rather get it merged. I will leave it in the series for now; it can come out later if need be. Thanks, jon