[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Clear the stolen fb before enabling

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Dec 17 12:33:20 CET 2012


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:15:41PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> As the stolen memory region will contain the contents of whatever was
> last there, it invariably contains garbage. To be consistent with the
> shmemfs backed fb and the expectations of the fb layer, we need to clear
> the fb prior to installing it as an fbcon.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58111
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
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