On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote: > At Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:53:50 +0100, > Daniel Vetter wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > Add a new option, bpp, to specify the default bpp value. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> >> > --- >> > >> > This patch is applied on the top of previous two patches. >> > I couldn't find an easy way to specify the default bpp, so I cooked >> > the driver quickly. If there is any other convenient way to achieve >> > this, let me know... >> >> Well, you can specify the desired bpp with a full mode on the kernel >> cmdline - the '-bpp' extension. Reading through the parser I think it >> should work even with just the '-bpp' and not a full mode, but I haven't >> tested. Look for cmdline_mode->bpp_specified in drm_fb_helper.c and the >> relevant parsing code in drm_mode_parse_command_line_for_connector in >> drm_modes.c >> >> If that doesn't work for you, I think it's better to extend/fix it than >> add driver module options. > > Well, the fb can be set by that option, but the default modeset > doesn't seem to honor it. So if you start X modeset driver, it still > takes what the driver sets as default. That was the problem I hit.
Oh, I've missed the preferred_bpp hint for the generic modesetting driver. Can we fill that in by using the bpp parsed in the fb helper somehow? -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
