[PATCH] mgag200: some cleanup and a fix for corrupted output

[Christopher Harvey]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:52:55AM -0500, Christopher Harvey wrote:
> Patches 1 to 4 are just cleanup. Maybe these should should be rolled
> into one patch?
> 
> Patch 5 is a bit more complicated.
> On cards with very little video memory, (e.g 8MB) higher resolutions
> at 32bit framebuffer depths will get corrupted because the required
> memory is larger than what the framebuffer has. DRM has "max_height"
> and "max_width" but no "max_bytes" for limiting resolutions, so the
> patch is a little hacky. The first for loop tries to associate a
> connector with the mode being tested. From the connector I can get the
> bpp if the user specified one on the video= commandline. After that I
> do 2 things:
>  1) Invalidate the requested mode from the video= parameter
>  2) Return MODE_BAD if the framebuffer would be too large
> I feel this patch plays with structures it shouldn't have to touch to
> get the bpp. An alternative fix would be to include a "max_bytes" in
> the DRM core and then do these checks there.
> 
> I'm also wondering, did I miss the 3.9.0 merge window?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christopher Harvey (5):
>   drm/mgag200: Cleanup: Remove pointless call to drm_fb_get_bpp_depth
>   drm/mgag200: Cleanup: 'fbdev_list' in 'struct mga_fbdev' is not used
>   drm/mgag200: Cleanup: Pass driver specific mga_device in driver
>     functions
>   drm/mgag200: Cleanup: Remove extra variable assigns
>   drm/mgag200: Reject modes that are too big for VRAM
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_drv.h  |  1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_fb.c   |  3 ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_main.c |  2 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_mode.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.12.4
> 

Ping.

I've got more patches queuing up. Should I re-submit these along with
the new ones?

So far I've only gotten commit message feedback.

-Chris