Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] mode change policy

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, James Simmons wrote:
> > Vesafb should return the 1280x1024x32 mode.
> 
> But only if the asked mode is "smaller" than the defualt mode.

Yes.

> > > I agree. This will especially be true when we support i2c to get monitor
> > > info. Here will will be fudging the hslen etc for the best fit.
> > 
> > Sounds reasonable. The question is: will it break many things?
> 
> I don't see why it would. You ask for a mode. The monitor can't handle it
> so we return -EINVAL. If the mode can be rounded up to something that the
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> monitor can support than we return the var in fb_set_var.

Ah, here you say `rounded up'. In the mail I replied to you (and Petr) were
talking about finding suitable color bitfield lengths, allowing rounding down
as well.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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