Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] drm_fb_helper: Impossible to change video mode

[Paulius Z. <pau...@gm...>]

On 11/20/2009 10:01 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>
>>>>> Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
>>>>>> On drivers using drm_fb_helper's in fb_ops it is not possible to
>>>>>> change
>>>>>> video mode, because of different var->pixclock evaluation: ...
>>>>>
>>>>> patch:
>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/dri...@li.../msg44369.html
>>>>
>>>> Those patches will enable fbdev apps to run properly. More patches are
>>>> needed if you want to support mode switching using the fbdev emulation
>>>> layer. I noticed my patches and yours where lost. Who do you send patches
>>>> too that can merge them ?
>>>
>>> y:/usr/src/git26>   perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
>>> David Airlie<ai...@li...>
>>> Dave Airlie<ai...@re...>
>>> Jesse Barnes<jb...@vi...>
>>> Mikael Pettersson<mi...@it...>
>>> dri...@li...
>>> lin...@vg...
>>>
>>> That's accurate enough.
>>>
>>> Generally, if nothing has happened in a week, the chances that it's
>>> lost are very high.  Resend.  If you like, cc me and I'll maintain the
>>> patches
>>> and resend them for you.
>>
>> You can add Tested-by: Paulius Zaleckas<pau...@gm...>
>> for http://www.mail-archive.com/dri...@li.../msg44369.html
>> as this was preventing DirectFB from running on my Asus Eee PC 701.
>
> I tested it as well with the both my 3Dfx driver that I wrote with KMS and
> the nouveau driver. We just need to make sure that the patches end up in
> the drm-next tree or these patches will be lost when drm-next gets merged
> to linus tree.

IMHO this patch should end up in current (2.6.32) kernel and we should
send it to stable ML.