On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:

> 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-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/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<airl...@linux.ie>
> > > > Dave Airlie<airl...@redhat.com>
> > > > Jesse Barnes<jbar...@virtuousgeek.org>
> > > > Mikael Pettersson<mi...@it.uu.se>
> > > > dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> > > > 
> > > > 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<paulius.zalec...@gmail.com>
> > > for
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/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.

Honestly I like to see it there as well.


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