From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paulius Zaleckas Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:13:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] drm_fb_helper: Impossible to change video Message-Id: <4B06F855.8090703@gmail.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On 11/20/2009 10:01 PM, James Simmons wrote: > >>>>> Paulius Zaleckas wrote: >>>>>> On drivers using drm_fb_helper's in fb_ops it is not possible to >>>>>> change >>>>>> video mode, because of different var->pixclock evaluation: ... >>>>> >>>>> patch: >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44369.html >>>> >>>> Those patches will enable fbdev apps to run properly. More patches are >>>> needed if you want to support mode switching using the fbdev emulation >>>> layer. I noticed my patches and yours where lost. Who do you send patches >>>> too that can merge them ? >>> >>> y:/usr/src/git26> perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f >>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c >>> David Airlie >>> Dave Airlie >>> Jesse Barnes >>> Mikael Pettersson >>> dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> >>> That's accurate enough. >>> >>> Generally, if nothing has happened in a week, the chances that it's >>> lost are very high. Resend. If you like, cc me and I'll maintain the >>> patches >>> and resend them for you. >> >> You can add Tested-by: Paulius Zaleckas >> for http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg44369.html >> as this was preventing DirectFB from running on my Asus Eee PC 701. > > I tested it as well with the both my 3Dfx driver that I wrote with KMS and > the nouveau driver. We just need to make sure that the patches end up in > the drm-next tree or these patches will be lost when drm-next gets merged > to linus tree. IMHO this patch should end up in current (2.6.32) kernel and we should send it to stable ML.