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Ivan Mironov 8ebc192f90 drm/fb-helper: Ignore the value of fb_var_screeninfo.pixclock 
commit 66a8d5bfb5 upstream.

Strict requirement of pixclock to be zero breaks support of SDL 1.2
which contains hardcoded table of supported video modes with non-zero
pixclock values[1].

To better understand which pixclock values are considered valid and how
driver should handle these values, I briefly examined few existing fbdev
drivers and documentation in Documentation/fb/. And it looks like there
are no strict rules on that and actual behaviour varies:

	* some drivers treat (pixclock == 0) as "use defaults" (uvesafb.c);
	* some treat (pixclock == 0) as invalid value which leads to
	  -EINVAL (clps711x-fb.c);
	* some pass converted pixclock value to hardware (uvesafb.c);
	* some are trying to find nearest value from predefined table
          (vga16fb.c, video_gx.c).

Given this, I believe that it should be safe to just ignore this value if
changing is not supported. It seems that any portable fbdev application
which was not written only for one specific device working under one
specific kernel version should not rely on any particular behaviour of
pixclock anyway.

However, while enabling SDL1 applications to work out of the box when
there is no /etc/fb.modes with valid settings, this change affects the
video mode choosing logic in SDL. Depending on current screen
resolution, contents of /etc/fb.modes and resolution requested by
application, this may lead to user-visible difference (not always):
image will be displayed in a right way, but it will be aligned to the
left instead of center. There is no "right behaviour" here as well, as
emulated fbdev, opposing to old fbdev drivers, simply ignores any
requsts of video mode changes with resolutions smaller than current.

The easiest way to reproduce this problem is to install sdl-sopwith[2],
remove /etc/fb.modes file if it exists, and then try to run sopwith
from console without X. At least in Fedora 29, sopwith may be simply
installed from standard repositories.

[1] SDL 1.2.15 source code, src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbvideo.c, vesa_timings
[2] http://sdl-sopwith.sourceforge.net/

Signed-off-by: Ivan Mironov <mironov.ivan@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 79e539453b ("DRM: i915: add mode setting support")
Fixes: 771fe6b912 ("drm/radeon: introduce kernel modesetting for radeon hardware")
Fixes: 785b93ef8c ("drm/kms: move driver specific fb common code to helper functions (v2)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190108072353.28078-3-mironov.ivan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2019-01-22 21:10:01 +01:00
arch Disable MSI also when pcie-octeon.pcie_disable on 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: authenc - fix parsing key with misaligned rta_len 2019-01-22 21:09:50 +01:00
Documentation x86/speculation/l1tf: Drop the swap storage limit restriction when l1tf=off 2019-01-09 17:45:54 +01:00
drivers drm/fb-helper: Ignore the value of fb_var_screeninfo.pixclock 2019-01-22 21:10:01 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs blockdev: Fix livelocks on loop device 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
include block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case 2019-01-16 22:03:23 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP 2019-01-16 22:03:26 +01:00
net tipc: fix uninit-value in tipc_nl_compat_doit 2019-01-22 21:09:58 +01:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts x86, modpost: Replace last remnants of RETPOLINE with CONFIG_RETPOLINE 2019-01-16 22:03:21 +01:00
security selinux: fix GPF on invalid policy 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Disable headset Mic VREF for headset mode of ALC225 2019-01-16 22:03:21 +01:00
tools selftests: Fix test errors related to lib.mk khdr target 2019-01-13 09:24:09 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:46:04 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-21 14:21:17 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: mark prepare0 as PHONY to fix external module build 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.