[git pull] drm for rc1

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Fri Jan 14 08:38:46 PST 2011


On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Anca Emanuel wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:55 PM, James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > > With your patch, I can boot the system. But nouveau is not loaded.
> >> > > dmesg attached.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Forget to mention: the revert makes first steps of boot look the same
> >> > (change the resolution of the text)
> >> > but with your patch, I see a big ugly ununtu logo, (I think that is
> >> > because nouveau is not loaded)
> >
> > Okay, can you do one more experiment for me. Since you already reverted
> > the patch to get it booting I like to ask you to add
> >
> > drm_fb_helper_fill_fix(info, fb_helper->fb);
> >
> > back into the drm_fb_helper_set_par function in drm_fb_helper.c. You have
> > something like this:
> >
> >        mutex_lock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> >        for (i = 0; i < fb_helper->crtc_count; i++) {
> >                crtc = fb_helper->crtc_info[i].mode_set.crtc;
> >                ret = crtc->funcs->set_config(&fb_helper->crtc_info[i].mode_set);
> >                if (ret) {
> >                        mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> >                        return ret;
> >                }
> >                drm_fb_helper_fill_fix(info, fb_helper->fb);
> >        }
> >        mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> >
> > Tell me if your system is still usable after that. Thanks for testing for
> > me.
> >
> 
> after
> 
> git revert dfe63bb0ad9810db13aab0058caba97866e0a681
> 
> and
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> index 5c4f9b9..2aad663 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> @@ -816,6 +816,7 @@ int drm_fb_helper_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
>                         mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
>                         return ret;
>                 }
> +               drm_fb_helper_fill_fix(info, fb_helper->fb->pitch, fb_helper->fb
>         }
>         mutex_unlock(&dev->mode_config.mutex);
> 
> I get an working system. ( the boot screen is not ok )
> Tested suspend/resume. Dmesg attached.

Just as I thought. Even this breaks the nouveau driver.

Could you now add also in the drm_fb_helper_fill_fix function

DRM_INFO("pitch %d, depth %d\n", fb_helper->fb->pitch, 
          fb_helper->fb->depth);
 
I have a feeling the values are not right. Thanks.


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