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drm/fbdev-generic: Fix framebuffer on big endian devices
authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:35:30 +0000 (19:35 +0200)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Wed, 3 Jul 2024 08:07:00 +0000 (10:07 +0200)
commit740b8dad05bee39e1e3b926f05bb4a8274b8ba49
treee1334f6013da4c2c53c579e0a309d0c15208a476
parent7b6f9ec6ad51125facadecf77dc6e62928186d2e
drm/fbdev-generic: Fix framebuffer on big endian devices

Starting with kernel 6.7, the framebuffer text console is not working
anymore with the virtio-gpu device on s390x hosts. Such big endian fb
devices are usinga different pixel ordering than little endian devices,
e.g. DRM_FORMAT_BGRX8888 instead of DRM_FORMAT_XRGB8888.

This used to work fine as long as drm_client_buffer_addfb() was still
calling drm_mode_addfb() which called drm_driver_legacy_fb_format()
internally to get the right format. But drm_client_buffer_addfb() has
recently been reworked to call drm_mode_addfb2() instead with the
format value that has been passed to it as a parameter (see commit
6ae2ff23aa43 ("drm/client: Convert drm_client_buffer_addfb() to drm_mode_addfb2()").

That format parameter is determined in drm_fbdev_generic_helper_fb_probe()
via the drm_mode_legacy_fb_format() function - which only generates
formats suitable for little endian devices. So to fix this issue
switch to drm_driver_legacy_fb_format() here instead to take the
device endianness into consideration.

Fixes: 6ae2ff23aa43 ("drm/client: Convert drm_client_buffer_addfb() to drm_mode_addfb2()")
Closes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-45158
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240627173530.460615-1-thuth@redhat.com
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fbdev_generic.c