[PATCH 1/2] offb: Fix bug in calculating requested vram size

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 15 10:58:26 EST 2011


>From 448820776363da565f221c020f4ccb3c610faec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:52:02 +1100
Subject: 

We used to try to request 8 times more vram than needed, which would
fail if the card has a too small BAR (observed with qemu).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 drivers/video/offb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

(I'm happy to carry that in the powerpc tree)

diff --git a/drivers/video/offb.c b/drivers/video/offb.c
index cb163a5..915acae 100644
--- a/drivers/video/offb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/offb.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static void __init offb_init_fb(const char *name, const char *full_name,
 				int pitch, unsigned long address,
 				int foreign_endian, struct device_node *dp)
 {
-	unsigned long res_size = pitch * height * (depth + 7) / 8;
+	unsigned long res_size = pitch * height;
 	struct offb_par *par = &default_par;
 	unsigned long res_start = address;
 	struct fb_fix_screeninfo *fix;




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