[PATCH 1/5] fbdevhw: iterate over all modes that match a mode. (v2)

Jamey Sharp jamey at minilop.net
Wed Oct 19 09:24:52 PDT 2011


Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net>

I haven't tested it, nor do I have mind-reading powers, but I think
this logic means what you think it means. Thanks for the revisions.

Jamey

On 10/19/11, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
>
> So on RHEL5 anaconda sets an xorg.conf with a fixed 800x600 mode in it,
> we run radeonfb and fbdev since ati won't work in userspace due to domain
> issues in the older codebase.
>
> On certain pseries blades the built-in KVM can't accept an 800x600-43 mode,
> it requires the 800x600-60 mode, so we have to have the kernel radeonfb
> driver reject the 800x600-43 mode when it sees it. However then fbdev
> doesn't try any of the other 800x600 modes in the modelist, and we end up
> getting a default 640x480 mode we don't want.
>
> This patch changes the mode validation loop to continue on with the other
> modes
> that match to find one that works.
>
> v2: move code around to avoid extra loop, after comment from Jamey.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c b/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c
> index dee731b..7bd409e 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c
> @@ -509,20 +509,25 @@ fbdevHWSetVideoModes(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn)
>  	pScrn->virtualY = pScrn->display->virtualY;
>
>  	for (modename = pScrn->display->modes; *modename != NULL; modename++) {
> -		for (mode = pScrn->monitor->Modes; mode != NULL; mode = mode->next)
> -			if (0 == strcmp(mode->name,*modename))
> -				break;
> +
> +		mode = pScrn->monitor->Modes;
> +
> +		for (; mode != NULL; mode = mode->next) {
> +			if (0 == strcmp(mode->name,*modename)) {
> +				if (fbdevHWSetMode(pScrn, mode, TRUE))
> +					break;
> +
> +				xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO,
> +					   "\tmode \"%s\" test failed\n", *modename);
> +			}
> +		}
> +
>  		if (NULL == mode) {
>  			xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO,
>  				   "\tmode \"%s\" not found\n", *modename);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>
> -		if (!fbdevHWSetMode(pScrn, mode, TRUE)) {
> -			xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO,
> -				   "\tmode \"%s\" test failed\n", *modename);
> -			continue;
> -		}
>  		xf86DrvMsg(pScrn->scrnIndex, X_INFO,
>  			   "\tmode \"%s\" ok\n", *modename);
>
> --
> 1.7.6.4
>
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