Re: fbdev upstream

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 07:40, John Zielinski wrote:
The idea is that fbcon will use FB_ACTIVATE_FIND instead of
FB_ACTIVATE_TEST, which I defined to be "pick a mode suitable for the
display based solely on xres/yres). In radeonfb, when you enable the

Can't you overload the `round up if it doesn't fit' rule to achieve this,
instead of by adding FB_ACTIVATE_FIND?

I.e. the procedure becomes:

    memset(var, 0, sizeof(*var);
    var.xres = wanted_xres;
    var.yres = wanted_yres;
    var.bits_per_pixel = wanted_bpp;
    ioctl(fd, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, &var);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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