[PATCH 1/1] drm/vmwgfx: correct fb_fix_screeninfo.line_length

Christopher Friedt chrisfriedt at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 05:49:40 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
> xf86-video-vmware in kms mode uses the kernel driver to set these registers.
> FWIW, the modesetting part of the kernel driver uses SVGA_REG_PITCHLOCK
> instead of
> SVGA_REG_BYTES_PER_LINE to set the pitch. That's probably where the
> clash happens.

That sounds a bit more accurate. Should kms and fbdev be setting both
registers then?


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