[PATCH 2/2] drm/fb-helper: Add a FIXME that generic_setup is very confusing

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Fri Dec 11 16:11:13 UTC 2020


I tried to fix this for real, but it's very sprawling and lots of
drivers get this mildly wrong one way or the other.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index 596255edf023..27deed4af015 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -2494,6 +2494,11 @@ void drm_fbdev_generic_setup(struct drm_device *dev,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: This mixes up depth with bpp, which results in a glorious
+	 * mess, resulting in some drivers picking wrong fbdev defaults and
+	 * others wrong preferred_depth defaults.
+	 */
 	if (!preferred_bpp)
 		preferred_bpp = dev->mode_config.preferred_depth;
 	if (!preferred_bpp)
-- 
2.29.2



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