Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev changes for 3.12

Hi Tomi

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Tomi Valkeinen [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Linus,

Here are the fbdev changes for 3.12.

There's a conflict in drivers/video/simplefb.c, which you can resolve by using
the version in your tree.

No, both need to be merged. The current version lacks support for
ABGR8888. The fbdev tree lacks the DRM format, which should be:
  { "a8b8g8r8", 32, {0, 8}, {8, 8}, {16, 8}, {24, 8}, DRM_FORMAT_ABGR8888 }

I guess the simplefb changes were taken through Ingo's tree because the series
includes x86 arch changes, but it would have been nice to see the patches in
the linux-next...

simplefb was in linux-next. I also acked the fixup from Stephen. See
this commit from a pre-3.12 -next tree:
  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/include/linux/platform_data/simplefb.h?idDed8fb588e517a2ef917c6757ee11ee47348978

It was merged through -tip around 1 month ago. It does mainly change
the way x86 provides firmware-fb information to drivers so -tip seemed
fine to me.

On another note, could you have a look at:
  [PATCH] efifb: prevent null dereferences by removing unused array
indices from dmi_list
That somehow didn't make it in your fbdev-next pull.

Thanks
David