Loongson MIPS netbooks use 1024x600 LCD panels, which is the original
target platform of this driver, but nearly all old x86 laptops have
1024x768. Lighting 768 panels using 600's timings would partially
garble the display. Since it's not possible to distinguish them reliably,
we change the default to 768, but keep 600 as-is on MIPS.
Further, earlier laptops, such as IBM Thinkpad 240X, has a 800x600 LCD
panel, this driver would probably garbled those display. As we don't
have one for testing, the original behavior of the driver is kept as-is,
but the problem has been documented is the comments.
Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me>
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
On a Thinkpad s30 (Pentium III / i440MX, Lynx3DM), running fbtest or X
will crash the machine instantly, because the VRAM/framebuffer is not
mapped correctly.
On SM712, the framebuffer starts at the beginning of address space, but
SM720's framebuffer starts at the 1 MiB offset from the beginning. However,
sm712fb fails to take this into account, as a result, writing to the
framebuffer will destroy all the registers and kill the system immediately.
Another problem is the driver assumes 8 MiB of VRAM for SM720, but some
SM720 system, such as this IBM Thinkpad, only has 4 MiB of VRAM.
Fix this problem by removing the hardcoded VRAM size, adding a function to
query the amount of VRAM from register MCR76 on SM720, and adding proper
framebuffer offset.
Please note that the memory map may have additional problems on Big-Endian
system, which is not available for testing by myself. But I highly suspect
that the original code is also broken on Big-Endian machines for SM720, so
at least we are not making the problem worse. More, the driver also assumed
SM710/SM712 has 4 MiB of VRAM, but it has a 2 MiB version as well, and used
in earlier laptops, such as IBM Thinkpad 240X, the driver would probably
crash on them. I've never seen one of those machines and cannot fix it, but
I have documented these problems in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me>
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Now since all cleanups are done and the code is ready to be merged lets
move it out of staging into fbdev location.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
