kernel/linux.git/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.c, branch v6.19.11

fbdev: vga16fb: Request memory region

2025-11-15T12:46:44+00:00

This patch reserve and release VGA memory region. This align with Documentation/drm/todo.rst "Request memory regions in all fbdev drivers" I've tested with 32bits kernel and qemu. Signed-off-by: Javier Garcia Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

fbdev: vga16fb: replace printk() with dev_*() in probe

2025-11-15T12:46:44+00:00

Use dev_*() with &dev->dev and drop the hard-coded prefix. Keep original severities. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Vivek BalachandharTN Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

fbdev: vga16fb: fix orig_video_isVGA confusion

2025-01-19T21:33:52+00:00

At some point the orig_video_isVGA field of screen_info was repurposed for video type. Using it directly for video type check is unsafe as it can still mean yes (1) or no-output (0) in certain configurations. I had one of those. Signed-off-by: Zsolt Kajtar Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

fbdev: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()

2024-10-08T19:47:18+00:00

After commit 0edb555a65d1 ("platform: Make platform_driver::remove() return void") .remove() is (again) the right callback to implement for platform drivers. Convert all platform drivers below drivers/video/fbdev to use .remove(), with the eventual goal to drop struct platform_driver::remove_new(). As .remove() and .remove_new() have the same prototypes, conversion is done by just changing the structure member name in the driver initializer. While touching these files, make indention of the struct initializer consistent in several files. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

fbcon: Increase maximum font width x height to 64 x 128

2024-03-16T07:29:48+00:00

By using bitmaps we actually support whatever size we would want, but the console currently limits fonts to 64x128 (which gives 60x16 text on 4k screens), so we don't need more for now, and we can easily increase later. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Merge tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2023-11-04T01:44:25+00:00

Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty/serial driver changes for 6.7-rc1. Included in here are: - console/vgacon cleanups and removals from Arnd - tty core and n_tty cleanups from Jiri - lots of 8250 driver updates and cleanups - sc16is7xx serial driver updates - dt binding updates - first set of port lock wrapers from Thomas for the printk fixes coming in future releases - other small serial and tty core cleanups and updates All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (193 commits) serdev: Replace custom code with device_match_acpi_handle() serdev: Simplify devm_serdev_device_open() function serdev: Make use of device_set_node() tty: n_gsm: add copyright Siemens Mobility GmbH tty: n_gsm: fix race condition in status line change on dead connections serial: core: Fix runtime PM handling for pending tx vgacon: fix mips/sibyte build regression dt-bindings: serial: drop unsupported samsung bindings tty: serial: samsung: drop earlycon support for unsupported platforms tty: 8250: Add note for PX-835 tty: 8250: Fix IS-200 PCI ID comment tty: 8250: Add Brainboxes Oxford Semiconductor-based quirks tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IX cards tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes PX cards tty: 8250: Fix up PX-803/PX-857 tty: 8250: Fix port count of PX-257 tty: 8250: Add support for Intashield IS-100 tty: 8250: Add support for Brainboxes UP cards tty: 8250: Add support for additional Brainboxes UC cards tty: 8250: Remove UC-257 and UC-431 ...

fbdev/vga16fb: Initialize fb_ops to fbdev I/O-memory helpers

2023-10-19T10:57:14+00:00

Initialize the instance of struct fb_ops with fbdev initializer macros for framebuffers in I/O address space. Set the read/write, draw and mmap callbacks to the correct implementation and avoid implicit defaults. Also select the necessary I/O helpers in Kconfig. Fbdev drivers sometimes rely on the callbacks being NULL for a default implementation to be invoked; hence requiring the I/O helpers to be built in any case. Setting all callbacks in all drivers explicitly will allow to make the I/O helpers optional. This benefits systems that do not use these functions. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230927074722.6197-45-tzimmermann@suse.de

vga16fb: drop powerpc support

2023-10-17T08:17:02+00:00

I noticed that commit 0db5b61e0dc07 ("fbdev/vga16fb: Create EGA/VGA devices in sysfb code") broke vga16fb on non-x86 platforms, because the sysfb code never creates a vga-framebuffer device when screen_info.orig_video_isVGA is set to '1' instead of VIDEO_TYPE_VGAC. However, it turns out that the only architecture that has allowed building vga16fb in the past 20 years is powerpc, and this only worked on two 32-bit platforms and never on 64-bit powerpc. The last machine that actually used this was removed in linux-3.10, so this is all dead code and can be removed. The big-endian support in vga16fb.c could also be removed, but I'd just leave this in place. Fixes: 933ee7119fb14 ("powerpc: remove PReP platform") Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009211845.3136536-8-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbdev: Remove FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT from framebuffer_alloc()'ed structs

2023-07-24T14:50:39+00:00

The flag FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT is 0 and has no effect, as struct fbinfo.flags has been allocated to zero by framebuffer_alloc(). So do not set it. Flags should signal differences from the default values. After cleaning up all occurrences of FBINFO_DEFAULT, the token will be removed. v4: * clarify commit message (Geert, Dan) v2: * fix commit message (Miguel) Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Jaya Kumar Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Sascha Hauer Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team Cc: Shawn Guo Cc: Fabio Estevam Cc: NXP Linux Team Cc: Maik Broemme Cc: Jingoo Han Cc: Sudip Mukherjee Cc: Teddy Wang Cc: Michal Januszewski Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230715185343.7193-15-tzimmermann@suse.de

fbdev: vga16fb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

2023-04-24T09:48:32+00:00

The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by returning an error code. However the value returned is (mostly) ignored and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns void. Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove callback to the void returning variant. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Helge Deller