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Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4312)
When there is disk I/O happening, the framebuffer has a little snow on
the screen. Once I/O has finished, no garbage remains on screen.
This bug was explained by: Knut Petersen
Most important is CRTC register 2f, signal quality is also improved for
higher vclk values by changing set_vclk() according to the X drivers and
cyblafb.c
The fix is to set the performance register (0x2f) with a more stable
value.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Reported by: Jochen Hein (Bugzilla Bug 4386)
booting leaves the end of long lines in the last line on screen when
scrolling. When X is running, scrolling puts garbage on the screen
(looks like X data) Console switch fixes the screen. Behaviour seems to
be identical with noaccel and without on the video=tridentfb parameter
in lilo.conf.
This bug was explained by: Knut_Petersen
Acceleration is broken for all BLADE 3D chips for all versions of kernel
2.6 except for 32bit modes. Most important reason is that the u32 col
parameter of the graphics engine needs the color value replicated to all
u8 of the u32 (8bit modes) and to both u16 of the u32.
Fix color value passed to graphics engine, verified by the reporter.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch displays the name of the fbdev driver in sysfs.
Down the road this will replace the current proc handle we have.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Do not use memcpy in fb_pad_aligned_buffer. It is suboptimal because only
a few bytes are moved at a time. Replace with a for-loop.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>> vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=16
>> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
>> vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
>> mtrr: type mismatch for fc000000,1000000 old: write-back new: write-
>> combining
Range is already set to write-back, vesafb attempts to add a write-combining
mtrr (default for vesafb).
>> mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
This is a bug, vesafb attempts to add a size < PAGE_SIZE triggering
the messages below.
To eliminate the warning messages, you can add the option mtrr:2 to add a
write-back mtrr for vesafb. Or just use nomtrr option.
1. Fix algorithm for finding the best power of 2 size with mtrr_add().
2. Add option to choose the mtrr type by extending the mtrr boot option:
mtrr:n where n
0 = no mtrr (equivalent to using the nomtrr option)
1 = uncachable
2 = write back
3 = write combining (default)
4 = write through
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix a buffer overflow vunerabilty in previous cmap patch
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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`gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of
the declaration. This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline
static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in
47 files).
While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace
that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here
and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The fb_info struct, as defined in include/linux/fb.h, contains an element
that is supposed to hold the current color map:
struct fb_cmap cmap; /* Current cmap */
This cmap is currently never updated when either fb_set_cmap() or
fb_set_user_cmap() are called. As a result, info->cmap contains the
default cmap that was set by a device driver/fbcon and a userspace
application using the FBIOGETCMAP ioctl will not always get the *currently*
used color map.
The patch fixes this by making sure the cmap is copied to info->cmap after
it is set correctly. It moves most of the code that is responsible for
setting the cmap to fb_set_cmap() and out of fb_set_user_cmap() to avoid
code-duplication.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently even when the cursor is disabled (`setterm -cursor off`), it is
still repainted as a black rectangle the size of a single char. This can
be seen, for example, by chvt'ing to a free tty, disabling the cursor and
doing `dd if=3D/dev/urandom of=3D/dev/fb0`.
The patch changes this behaviour by avoiding painting anything when the
cursor is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Color maps have up to 256 entries. 4096/256 allows for 16 characters per
line. The format for a cmap entry is "%02x%c%4x%4x%4x\n" %02x entry %c
transp %4x red %4x blue %4x green
You can read the color_map with cat fb0/color_map.
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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radeonfb does not clean up EDID sysfs attribute
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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fbdev is missing unregister_chrdev() on unload.
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix rounding error when mode frequency is very close to monitor limit
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some
warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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arch/mips/Kconfig is defining CONFIG_FB as bool and drivers/video/Kconfig
was changed a while ago to define it as tristate. Remove the MIPS
definition.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch from Sascha Hauer
The dmacr needs different settings on some boards. This patch makes the
register configurable by the platform part.
Also we have imxfb_disable_controller(), so lets use it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Scholz
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch is for supporting Epson s1d13xxx framebuffer device for m32r. #
Sorry, a little bigger.
The Epson s1d13806 is already supported by 2.6.12 kernel, and its driver is
placed as drivers/video/s1d13xxxfb.c.
For the m32r, a header file include/asm-m32r/s1d13806.h was prepared for
several m32r target platforms. It was originally generated by an Epson
tool S1D13806CFG.EXE, and modified manually for the m32r platforms.
Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Correctly test for a null pointer before going and dereferencing it.
This defect was found automatically by Coverity Prevent, a static analysis
tool.
Signed-off-by: Zaur Kambarov <zkambarov@coverity.com>
Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Few more u32 vs. pm_message_t fixes.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id,
similar to pci_device_id. This allows a device table to be generated,
which can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module
loading.
In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to
module-init-tools and hotplug must be applied. Those patches are
available at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The generic fbcon code tries to register and use the vsync IRQ for
ARM platforms with acornfb, but forgets to disable its own cursor
timer. The result is a flickering flashing cursor.
Remove the code from the fbcon core to register this platform
private interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch removes CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK (PowerBook support). This is now
split into CONFIG_PMAC_MEDIABAY for the actual hotswap bay that some
powerbooks have, CONFIG_PM for power management related code, and just left
out of any CONFIG_* option for some generally useful stuff that can be used
on non-laptops as well.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch removes some obviously dead code found by the Coverity
checker.
This patch was already ACK'ed by Petr Vandrovec.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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au1100: use C99 struct init.
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove unneeded fbsysfs printk.
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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We're accidentally selecting the new fonts by default. Don't.
Signed-off-by: Jurriaan Kalkman <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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vesafb will do really silly things like..
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,400000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,200000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,100000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,80000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,20000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x800 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x400 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x200 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x100 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x80 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x40 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x20 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x10 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x8 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x4 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x2 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x1 base: 0xe0000000
Stop scaling down at PAGE_SIZE.
Also fix up some broken indentation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch from Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Some months ago, you killed the address ranges mechanism from all
sensors i2c chip drivers (both the module parameters and the in-code
address lists). I think it was a very good move, as the ranges can
easily be replaced by individual addresses, and this allowed for
significant cleanups in the i2c core (let alone the impressive size
shrink for all these drivers).
Unfortunately you did not do the same for non-sensors i2c chip drivers.
These need the address ranges even less, so we could get rid of the
ranges here as well for another significant i2c core cleanup. Here comes
a patch which does just that. Since the process is exactly the same as
what you did for the other drivers set already, I did not split this one
in parts.
A documentation update is included.
The change saves 308 bytes in the i2c core, and an average 1382 bytes
for chip drivers which use I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD, 126 bytes for those which
do not.
This change is required if we want to merge the sensors and non-sensors
i2c code (and we want to do this).
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Index: gregkh-2.6/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
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Several drivers miss filling in the access_align field. So this patch has
them fill it in.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Shrink the stack when calling the drawing alignment functions.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Improve the fonts for use with the framebuffer.
I've added all the characters marked 'FIXME' in the sun12x22 font and
created a 10x18 font (based on the sun12x22 font) and a 7x14 font (based
on the vga8x16 font).
This patch is non-intrusive, no options are enabled by default so most
users won't notice a thing.
I am placing my changes under the GPL, however, I've not seen any copyright
notices on the sun12x22 font and the vga8x16 font which I derived my new
fonts from so I don't know what the copyright status is.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add support for the Arc monochrome LCD board.
The board uses KS108 controllers to drive individual 64x64 LCD matrices.
The board can be paneled in a variety of setups such as 2x1=128x64,
4x4=256x256 and so on. The board/host interface is through GPIO.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Changed the tests in intelfb_set_par to check also the parameter
var.accel_flags. If null, do nothing about ring buffers.
Now, the DirectFB i830 driver could nicely work even if intelfb is hw
accelerated. Just change the /etc/fb.modes file to disable console hw
acceleration when starting a DirectFB app.
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Add voffset option to avoid conficts with Xorg i810 driver
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently when going from vgacon to fbcon the VT screenbuffer are often
different sizes. In the case when they are different sizes a new VT
screenbuffer is allocated and the contents are copied into the new buffer.
Currently the amount copied from VGA text memory to the new screenbuf is
the size of the framebuffer console. If the framebuffer console new VT
screen buffer is greater than the VGA text memory size then we get some of
the VGA BIOS contents as well.
This patch will only allow you to copy up to the size of VGA text memory
now. The rest is filled with erase characters.
Initial patch by Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Since no one is using the inbuf, outbuf of struct fb_pixmap I removed their
use in the framebuffer console. The idea is instead move the pixmap
functionality below the accelerated functions intead of on top as the way
it is now. If there is no objection please apply. This is against Linus
latestr GIT tree. Thank you.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Can't use this fancy name, because it's used to generate a sysfs filename:
kobject_register failed for Intel(R) 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G
Framebuffer Driver (-13)
[<c01bf8e3>] kobject_register+0x43/0x70
[<c022dfe2>] bus_add_driver+0x52/0xa0
[<c01c8c10>] pci_device_shutdown+0x0/0x20
[<c01c8d71>] pci_register_driver+0x61/0x80
[<c0387099>] intelfb_init+0x59/0x70
[<c03787cc>] do_initcalls+0x2c/0xc0
[<c0159025>] kern_mount+0x15/0x17
[<c01002a0>] init+0x0/0x100
[<c01002ca>] init+0x2a/0x100
[<c0100f58>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x18
[<c0100f5d>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix the size passed to release_mem_region in an error path.
Also adjust the message printed when vesafb cannot load; the comment there
already says this must not be fatal, so the message should also not mention
the word 'abort' otherwise indicating a problem to worry about in the log.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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s1d13xxxfb_remove() is referenced from s1d13xxxfb_probe(), which is marked
__devinit(). So s1d13xxxfb_remove() cannot be marked __devexit.
Does this all make sense? Clearly the __devexit section will still be in
core when the __devinit code is run, if the driver was loaded as a module.
But I suppose that if the driver is statically linked, the __devexit section
might be dropped early in boot. Still, we wouldn't drop __devexit prior to
initcall completion, at which point the __devinit code has all been run
anyway.
verdict: this code was legal and made sense. Is this a generic problem, or an
arm-specific problem?
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
`.exit.text' referenced in section `.init.text' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I don't see any reason why the framebuffer should need to be cleared,
and it makes Tux vanish.
Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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class_simple
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Module needs a license to prevent kernel tainting.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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It prints out x,x instead of x,y.
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The current radeonfb memset's the framebuffer to 0 when loaded. This
removes occasional artifacts but has the nasty side effect that if you
load radeonfb without framebuffer console, you destroy the VGA text
buffer, font, etc... radeon must not touch the framebuffer content when
it doesn't "own" it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Nov 16 2004 a change to intelfbdrv.c was commited (as part of 0.9.2 it
looks like) that added __initdata to all of the module param variables that
seems to create the opportunity for an oops.
I've recently been chasing an OOPS
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111552250920370&w=2) I
created by reading every file on the /sys file system and I've traced it
back to this code in the intelfbdrv. Though I had root privs in my initial
problem report, it turns out they are un-necessary to generate the oops -
all you've got to do is "cat /sys/module/intelfb/parameters/mode" enough
times and eventually it will oops.
This is because sysfs automatically exports all module_param declarations
to the sysfs file system.. which means those variables can be dynamically
evaluated at any later time, which of course means marking them __initdata
is a bad idea ;).. when they happen to be char *'s it is an especially bad
idea ;).
Applying the patch below clears up the OOPS for me.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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[hv]sync[12] are __initdata, causing mplayer to oops with the previous i810fb fix.
My fault, this fixes it. Sorry.
Signed-off-by: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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