Re: [PATCH] firmware/sysfb: Fix wrong stride when bits-per-pixel is calculated

["Pierre Asselin" <pa@panix.com>]

(Okay, can't back out *all* of the first patch, just the assignment
to mode->stride.)

Anyway, here you go:

grub: gfxpayload=keep
[    0.003333] Console: colour dummy device 128x48
[    0.003333] printk: console [tty0] enabled
[    0.419983] fbcon: Taking over console
[    0.516198] pci 0000:01:05.0: vgaarb: setting as boot VGA device
[    0.516229] pci 0000:01:05.0: vgaarb: bridge control possible
[    0.516253] pci 0000:01:05.0: vgaarb: VGA device added:
decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none
[    0.516288] vgaarb: loaded
[    3.343649] simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: framebuffer at
0xd8000000, 0x300000 bytes
[    3.343687] simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: format=r8g8b8,
mode=1024x768x24, linelength=4096
[    3.344199] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[    3.681177] simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: fb0: simplefb
registered!

[    3.343345] sysfb: si->lfb_depth 32 si->lfb_width 1024
[    3.343372] sysfb: si->red_size 8 si->red_pos 16
[    3.343392] sysfb: si->green_size 8 si->green_pos 8
[    3.343413] sysfb: si->blue_size 8 si->blue_pos 0
[    3.343433] sysfb: si->rsvd_size 0 si->rsvd_pos 0
[    3.343453] sysfb: bits_per_pixel 24 si->lfb_linelength 4096
[    3.343476] sysfb: stride 3072
[    3.343493] sysfb: format r8g8b8

So it's the rsvd_size and rsvd_pos that are bogus.  The fix would be to:
  1) believe si->lfb_depth
  2) fill with ones a bitmask of size si->lfb_depth
  3) clear chunks of bits based on si->{red,green,blue,rsvd}_{size,pos}
  4) printk if the bitmask is not all zeros
  5) override rsvd_{size,pos} based on the bitmask
That way you know where the 'x' goes in xrgb.

Hm.  Could that fix my two boxes but cause a regression for someone else ?
What if _depth is low but the rsvd_ are right ?
Then _width and _linelength would be inconsistent with _depth but
consistent with the recomputed bits_per_pixel ?  How many ways can the
firmware lie ?

We need more testers, don't we ?