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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] fbdev/efifb: Fix 16 color palette entry calculation
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On 13/06/16 20:15, Max Staudt wrote:
> When using efifb with a 16-bit (5:6:5) visual, fbcon's text is rendered
> in the wrong colors - e.g. text gray (#aaaaaa) is rendered as green
> (#50bc50) and neighboring pixels have slightly different values
> (such as #50bc78).
>
> The reason is that fbcon loads its 16 color palette through
> efifb_setcolreg(), which in turn calculates a 32-bit value to write
> into memory for each palette index.
> Until now, this code could only handle 8-bit visuals and didn't mask
> overlapping values when ORing them.
>
> With this patch, fbcon displays the correct colors when a qemu VM is
> booted in 16-bit mode (in GRUB: "set gfxpayload=800x600x16").
>
> Fixes: 7c83172b98e5 ("x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI frame buffer driver") # v2.6.24+
> Signed-off-by: Max Staudt <mstaudt@suse.de>
> Acked-By: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, queued for v4.9.

Tomi


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