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Subject[PATCH] VESA FrameBuffer memory size
I've had problems with my Dell Inspiron laptop w/ VESA framebuffers in ywrap
mode. After some poking around I've discovered that the VESA implementation on
my laptop underreports its memory size by 64k. I couldn't find any reason for
this in the VESA spec, so there was no way to directly fix the problem. What I
did do however is add a mem= parameter to the vesafb command line. I mentioned
this back in the 2.3.1 days but still haven't seen this code make its way into
the tree. Below is the patch against a 2.4.0-test6 kernel. Any chance of me
getting this in, its getting to be a real PITA to have to patch every release.

Bry

diff -uNr linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
linux-2.4.0-test6/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
--- linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Fri Jul 28 15:50:51 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test6/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt Fri Aug 18 17:13:27 2000
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@

mtrr setup memory type range registers for the vesafb framebuffer.

+mem Override the amount of memory reported by the VESA BIOS
+ INT 10h (AX=4f00h). Some VBE implementations misreport the
+ amount of video memory, causing a "black hole" when using ywrap
+ every time the end of the memory is reached. If you enter a
+ value here larger than you actually have, you will more than
+ likely lock your system so be careful! Syntax is mem=XXX[kKmM]

Have fun!

@@ -156,3 +162,4 @@

Minor (mostly typo) changes
by Nico Schmoigl <schmoigl@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>
+mem option added by Bryan Mayland <bmayland@leonindev.com>
--- linux/drivers/video/vesafb.c Wed Jul 26 14:08:41 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test6/drivers/video/vesafb.c Fri Aug 18 17:16:03 2000
@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@
{
char *this_opt;

- fb_info.fontname[0] = '\0';
+ fb_info.fontname[0] = '\0';
+ video_size = 0;

if (!options || !*options)
return 0;
@@ -476,6 +477,13 @@
mtrr=1;
else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "font:", 5))
strcpy(fb_info.fontname, this_opt+5);
+ else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "mem=", 4)) {
+ video_size = simple_strtoul(this_opt + 4, &this_opt, 0);
+ if (*this_opt == 'K' || *this_opt == 'k')
+ video_size <<= 10;
+ else if (*this_opt=='M' || *this_opt=='m')
+ video_size <<= 20;
+ }
}
return 0;
}
@@ -515,7 +523,9 @@
video_width = screen_info.lfb_width;
video_height = screen_info.lfb_height;
video_linelength = screen_info.lfb_linelength;
- video_size = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
+ /* video_size may have been overriden by a command line option */
+ if (!video_size)
+ video_size = screen_info.lfb_size * 65536;
video_visual = (video_bpp == 8) ?
FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR : FB_VISUAL_TRUECOLOR;


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