kernel/linux.git/drivers/video/screen_info_generic.c, branch v7.1

video: screen_info: Add pixel-format helper for linear framebuffers

2025-08-26T07:54:16+00:00

Add screen_info_pixel_format(), which converts a screen_info's information about the color format to struct pixel_format. The encoding within the screen_info structure is complex and therefore prone to errors. Later patches will convert callers to use the pixel format. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714151513.309475-3-tzimmermann@suse.de

firmware: sysfb: Move bpp-depth calculation into screen_info helper

2025-04-07T09:02:07+00:00

Move the calculation of the bits per pixels for screen_info into a helper function. This will make it available to other callers besides the firmware code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401094056.32904-14-tzimmermann@suse.de

video: Add helpers for decoding screen_info

2024-02-14T09:09:13+00:00

The plain values as stored in struct screen_info need to be decoded before being used. Add helpers that decode the type of video output and the framebuffer I/O aperture. Old or non-x86 systems may not set the type of video directly, but only indicate the presence by storing 0x01 in orig_video_isVGA. The decoding logic in screen_info_video_type() takes this into account. It then follows similar code in vgacon's vgacon_startup() to detect the video type from the given values. A call to screen_info_resources() returns all known resources of the given screen_info. The resources' values have been taken from existing code in vgacon and vga16fb. These drivers can later be converted to use the new interfaces. v2: * return ssize_t from screen_info_resources() * don't call __screen_info_has_lfb() unnecessarily Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240212090736.11464-2-tzimmermann@suse.de