[RFC PATCH 1/2] drm/fb-helper: Bring back workaround for bugs of SDL 1.2

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 04:26:56AM +0500, Ivan Mironov wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 13:00 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: 
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Workaround for SDL 1.2, which is known to be setting all pixel format
> > > +	 * fields values to zero in some cases. We treat this situation as a
> > > +	 * kind of "use some reasonable autodetected values".
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (!var->red.offset     && !var->green.offset    &&
> > > +	    !var->blue.offset    && !var->transp.offset   &&
> > > +	    !var->red.length     && !var->green.length    &&
> > > +	    !var->blue.length    && !var->transp.length   &&
> > > +	    !var->red.msb_right  && !var->green.msb_right &&
> > > +	    !var->blue.msb_right && !var->transp.msb_right) {
> > > +		u8 depth;
> > > +
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * There is no way to guess the right value for depth when
> > > +		 * bpp is 16 or 32. So we just restore the behaviour previously
> > > +		 * introduced here by commit 785b93ef8c309. In fact, this was
> > > +		 * implemented even earlier in various device drivers.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		switch (var->bits_per_pixel) {
> > > +		case 16:
> > > +			depth = 15;
> > > +			break;
> > > +		case 32:
> > > +			depth = 24;
> > > +			break;
> > > +		default:
> > > +			depth = var->bits_per_pixel;
> > > +			break;
> > > +		}
> > 
> > The guesswork here looks fishy. We should still have the drm-side format,
> > and should use that.
> 
> This existed for a very long time until problematic commit was applied.
> And there is a clear evidence that it was actually used by
> applications.

I'm not against guessing this stuff, but we know have much better format
handling code than when this code was originally written. I just want to
use that (like it's used everywhere else in this file now). fb->format
gives you the right depth, no guessing needed at all.

And if you guess wrong here, you'll fail in these format checks later on.
-Daniel
> 
> > Otherwise the patches look good I think, but they
> > need a Fixes: tag and cc: stable so backporters know what to do with
> > these.
> > 
> 
> I added "cc: stable" into the regression fix. Also added more info into
> the commit messages. See the PATCH v1 in the mailing list.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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