Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Mar 2019 13:21:03 +0100 | From | Sudip Mukherjee <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] fbdev: sm712fb: use 1024x768 by default on non-MIPS, fix garbled display. |
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 06:25:04AM +0800, Yifeng Li wrote: > 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> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
-- Regards Sudip
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