[PATCH 4/8] fbdev: sm712fb: fix boot screen glitch when sm712fb replaces VGA.

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 12:19:44 UTC 2019


On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 06:25:00AM +0800, Yifeng Li wrote:
> When the machine is booted in VGA mode, loading sm712fb would cause
> a glitch of random pixels shown on the screen. To prevent it from
> happening, we first clear the entire framebuffer, and we also need
> to stop calling smtcfb_setmode() during initialization, the fbdev
> layer will call it for us later when it's ready.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli at tomli.me>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org  # v4.4+

Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com>

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Regards
Sudip


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