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Antonino A. Daplas 2ae8547775 vgacon: disallow console operations when in KD_GRAPHICS mode
Reported by James Pearson as:

	 boot to run level 3

	 if not root, then make sure /dev/console is writeable

	 login and type:

	 setterm -blank 0

	 start X

	 type into an xterm:

	 while true; do echo "" > /dev/console; usleep 100000; done

	 while the above loop is running switch to the text console and back
	 again (Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-Alt-F7)

	 ... and the screen will be shifting (and wrapping) to the left.

This problem stems from continuously writing text to the system console (which
is in KD_TEXT mode) while the foreground console is in KD_GRAPHICS
mode. Somewhere along the way, console printing got confused and omitted the
KD_GRAPHICS/KD_TEXT test.  Thus, vgacon attempted to scroll the screen of X,
which causes X to shift.

Fix by disallowing vgacon to touch the hardware when the vc is in KD_GRAPHICS
mode. A definitive fix entails a full audit of the console code.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:33 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 167f07f1bc fbcon: check console-fb mapping in fbcon_get_requirement
- Check the console-to-fb mapping in fbcon_get_requirement(), otherwise the
  value returned may not be valid for the driver.

- Minor cleanup

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:33 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 38a3dc5185 fbdev: fbcon: check if mode can handle new screen
Check if the mode can properly display the screen.  This will be needed by
drivers where the capability is not constant with each mode.  The function
fb_set_var() will query fbcon the requirement, then it will query the driver
(via a new hook fb_get_caps()) its capability.  If the driver's capability
cannot handle fbcon's requirement, then fb_set_var() will fail.

For example, if a particular driver supports 2 modes where:

mode1 = can only display 8x16 bitmaps
mode2 = can display any bitmap

then if current mode = mode2 and current font = 12x22

fbset <mode1> /* mode1 cannot handle 12x22 */
fbset will fail

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:32 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 38b4982c63 fbcon: check if the character count can be handled
Fontmaps can be 256 or 512 in length. The only driver that can do tileblitting
can only handle 256 characters.  Check for this when setting the font.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:31 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 2d2699d984 fbcon: font setting should check limitation of driver
fbcon_set_font() will now check if the new font dimensions can be drawn by the
driver (by checking pixmap.blit_x and blit_y).  Similarly, add 2 new
parameters to get_default_font(), font_w and font_h, to further aid in the
font selection process.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:31 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 95d67bb1ca fbcon: delay screen update when setting the mode of all consoles
If the current framebuffer console is rotated (rotate != 0), doing an
"fbset -a" will corrupt the current console.  Fix by updating the current
console only after all non-visible consoles have been updated.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:29 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 70802c6037 fbdev: don't show logo if driver or fbcon are modular
It was always intended for the logo to be drawn only if both fbcon and the
driver that is mapped to it are both compiled statically.  Currently, if fbcon
is loaded prior to the driver, the logo is not shown.  Reverse the order, and
the code may attempt to draw the logo which is __initdata.  By accident, this
bug is rarely seen because this method of loading the modules is not common
and secondly, a code in fb_prepare_logo() that checks the height of the logo
(now a random value) rarely succeeds.

Fix by drawing the logo only if both fbcon and the driver are statically
compiled.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc:  Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:28 -07:00
Michal Januszewski d1e2306681 fbcon: don't draw cursor when it's disabled
When the cursor and echo are disabled on the current console, pressing a
key will cause a black rectangle to be painted in the cursor's position.
Fix this by not touching the framebuffer in fbcon_cursor() when the
cursor is off.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:28 -07:00
Andrew Morton cf36a65b08 vt-add-color-support-to-the-underline-and-italic-attributes-fix
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:27 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt fa6ce9ab5f vt: add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributes
Add color support to the "underline" and "italic" attributes as in
OpenBSD/NetBSD-style (vt220) and xterm.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:27 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 250038f5a7 fbdev: avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo
fbcon_prepare_logo(): Avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-By: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:27 -07:00
Gerd Hoffmann f82af20e1a [PATCH] x86-64: ignore vgacon if hardware not present
Avoid trying to set up vgacon if there's no vga hardware present.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-05-02 19:27:19 +02:00
Richard Purdie 994efacdf9 backlight/fbcon: Add FB_EVENT_CONBLANK
The backlight class wants notification whenever the console is blanked
but doesn't get this when hardware blanking fails and software blanking
is used. Changing FB_EVENT_BLANK to report both would be a behaviour
change which could confuse the console layer so add a new event for
software blanking and have the backlight class listen for both.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2007-02-20 08:38:45 +00:00
Tim Schmielau cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 9791d763de [PATCH] fbdev modedb: make more pointer parameters const
fbdev modedb: make more input and output pointer parameters const

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:44 -08:00
Franck Bui-Huu 024cd7e088 [PATCH] softcursor.c: avoid unaligned accesses
Fix some possible unaligned accesses when accessing fields of 'image'
pointer.  Indeed this pointer was obtained by allocating a block of memory
that embeds a temporary array plus an image structure.  The temporary
buffer was located at the start of the allocated block and depending on its
size, the image structure which comes right after can be unaligned.

For example when using mini fonts (4x6) (cursor's width is 4 and its height
is 6) the temporary buf size is 6 bytes.

Therefore this patch moves the image structure to the start of the block
and moves the temporary buffer right after.  It makes 'image' pointer
always aligned and since the tempo buf is a buffer of char, it's always
correctly aligned as well.

It also fixes the file header alignement.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:07 -08:00
Helge Deller 0128beeee8 [PATCH] constify and annotate __read_mostly in vgacon.c and fbmem.c
- annotate some variables from vgacon.c and fbmem.c as __read_mostly
- move the mask[] array in fb_set_logo_truepalette() into the .rodata section

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:06 -08:00
Helge Deller d95159cf1b [PATCH] various fbdev files: mark structs and array read-only
- move some structs and arrays to the read-only (.rodata) section

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:05 -08:00
David Howells c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 48afdf6eb7 [PATCH] fbcon:: make 3 functions static
This patch makes three needlessly global functions static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:12 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 0a727dea77 [PATCH] fbcon: Honor the return value of device_create_file
Check the return value of device_create_file().  If return is 'fail', remove
attributes by calling device_remove_file().

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:10 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 212f26398f [PATCH] fbcon: Remove cursor timer if unused
Remove the cursor timer (cursor flashing) on the following conditions:

- if vc is in KD_GRAPHICS mode, ie, when X owns the console
- if vc is blanked

This misbehavior was exposed by Dave Jones.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:10 -07:00
Dave Jones e299dd4d7c [PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking
Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.  This
patch turns that into a single allocation.

This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box.

[adaplas]
Per Alan's suggestion, move global variables to fbcon's private structure.
This would also avoid resource leaks when fbcon is unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:10 -07:00
Paul Mundt 5c930e8cbf video: Disable vgacon for SuperH.
We don't support this on SH, so just disable it..

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 13:20:22 +09:00
Al Viro 956295d50d [PATCH] fix the survivors of fbcon_vbl_handler() renaming
In

|Author: James Simmons <jsimmons@kozmo.(none)>
|Date:   Thu Mar 13 22:37:08 2003 -0800
|
|    [FBCON] Cursor handling clean up. I nuked several static variables.

we have

-static void fbcon_vbl_handler(int irq, void *dummy, struct pt_regs *fp)
+static void fb_vbl_handler(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *fp)

and 3 years later a couple of instances missed back then still remains
there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22 17:48:57 -07:00
Frederik Deweerdt 7ca7b5c42e [PATCH] mdacon: fix __init section warnings
WARNING: drivers/video/console/mdacon.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'mdacon_startup' (at offset 0x123) and 'mdacon_init'
WARNING: drivers/video/console/mdacon.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'mdacon_startup' (at offset 0x18b) and 'mdacon_init'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:40 -07:00
Jon Smirl 894673ee61 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h
screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be
included by tty.h.  This patches removes the include and modifies all users to
directly include screen_info.h.  struct screen_info is mainly used to
communicate with the console drivers in drivers/video/console.  Note that this
patch touches every arch and I have no way of testing it.  If there is a
mistake the worst thing that will happen is a compile error.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix arm build]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
Jon Smirl a8f340e394 [PATCH] vt: Remove VT-specific declarations and definitions from tty.h
MAX_NR_CONSOLES, fg_console, want_console and last_console are more of a
function of the VT layer than the TTY one.  Moving these to vt.h and vt_kern.h
allows all of the framebuffer and VT console drivers to remove their
dependency on tty.h.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 740e518efc [PATCH] 64bit resource: C99 changes for struct resource declarations
Based on an original patch from Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> and
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>.  This is needed in order to prepare for
changing the size of resources.

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-27 09:23:58 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas b877a96409 [PATCH] VT binding: Make sticon support binding
Do not mark sticon_startup() as __init

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:34 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 2aea875da2 [PATCH] VT binding: Make promcon support binding
Do not mark promcon_startup() and promcon_init_unimap() as __init

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:34 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas e86bb8acc0 [PATCH] VT binding: Make newport_con support binding
- move register ioremap from newport_startup() to newport_console_init()
- fonts are freed multiple times, do it only once

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:34 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas ac08dae816 [PATCH] VT binding: Make mdacon support binding
Do not mark mdacon_startup __init.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:33 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 5bd42536b3 [PATCH] VT binding: Do not create a device file for class device 'fbcon'
The class device "fbcon" does not need to be a device file.  Do not create one
by passing a major and minor number of zero to
class_device_create()/destroy().

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:33 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas e614b18dce [PATCH] VT binding: Update fbcon to support binding
The control for binding/unbinding is moved from fbcon to the console layer.
Thus the fbcon sysfs attributes, attach and detach, are also gone.

    1. Add a notifier event that tells fbcon if a framebuffer driver has been
       unregistered.  If no registered driver remains, fbcon will unregister
       itself from the console layer.

    2. Replaced calls to give_up_console() with unregister_con_driver().

    3. Still use take_over_console() instead of register_con_driver() to
       maintain compatibility

    4. Respect the parameter first_fb_vc and last_fb_vc instead of using 0 and
       MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1. These parameters are settable by the user.

    5. When fbcon is completely unbound from the console layer, fbcon will
       also release (iow, decrement module reference counts to zero) all fbdev
       drivers. In other words, a bind or unbind request from the console layer
       will propagate down to the framebuffer drivers.

    6. If fbcon is not bound to the console, it will ignore all notifier
       events (except driver registration and unregistration) and all sysfs
       requests.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:33 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 5428b04405 [PATCH] Detaching fbcon: add capability to attach/detach fbcon
Add the ability to detach and attach the framebuffer console to and from the
vt layer.  This is done by echo'ing any value to sysfs attributes located in
class/graphics/fbcon.  The two attributes are:

      attach - bind fbcon to the vt layer
      detach - unbind fbcon from the vt layer

Once fbcon is detached from the vt layer, fbcon can be unloaded if compiled as
a module.  This feature is quite useful for developers who work on the
framebuffer or console subsystem.  This is also useful for users who want to
go to text mode or graphics mode without having to reboot.

Directly unloading the fbcon module is not possible because the vt layer
increments the module reference count for all bound consoles.  Detaching fbcon
decrements the module reference count to zero so unloading becomes possible.

Detaching fbcon may interfere with X and/or DRM.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:32 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas e55186fe5f [PATCH] Detaching fbcon: clean up exit code
To detach fbcon, it must also clean up all resources it allocated.  This was
never done before because fbcon cannot be unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:32 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 9a17917671 [PATCH] Detaching fbcon: sdd sysfs class device entry for fbcon
In order for this feature to work, an interface will be needed.  The most
appropriate is sysfs.  However, the framebuffer console has no sysfs entry
yet.  This will create a sysfs class device entry for fbcon under
/sys/class/graphics.

Add a class_device entry 'fbcon' under class 'graphics'.  Console-specific
attributes which where previously under class/graphics/fb[x] are moved to
class/graphics/fbcon.  These attributes, 'con_rotate' and 'con_rotate_all',
are also renamed to 'rotate' and 'rotate_all' respectively.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:32 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 50ec42edd9 [PATCH] Detaching fbcon: fix vgacon to allow retaking of the console
One of the limitations of the framebuffer console system is its inablity to
unload or detach itself from the console layer.  And once it loads, it also
locks in framebuffer drivers preventing their unload. Although the con2fbmap
utility does provide a means to unload individual drivers, it requires that at
least one framebuffer driver is loaded for use by fbcon.

With this change, it is possible to detach fbcon from the console layer. If it
is detached, it will reattach the boot console driver (which is permanently
loaded) back to the console layer so the system can continue to work.  As a
consequence, fbcon will also decrement its reference count of individual
framebuffer drivers, allowing all of these drivers to be unloaded even if
fbcon is still loaded.

Unless you use drivers that restores the display to text mode (rivafb and
i810fb, for example), detaching fbcon does require assistance from userspace
tools (ie, vbetools) for text mode to be restored completely.  Without the
help of these tools, fbcon will leave the VGA console corrupted. The methods
that can be used will be described in Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt.

Because the vt layer also increments the module reference count for each
console driver, fbcon cannot be directly unloaded.  It must be detached first
prior to unload.

Similarly, fbcon can be reattached to the console layer without having to
reload the module.  A nice feature if fbcon is compiled statically.

Attaching and detaching fbcon is done via sysfs attributes. A class device
entry for fbcon is created in /sys/class/graphics. The two attributes that
controls this feature are detach and attach. Two other attributes that are
piggybacked under /sys/class/graphics/fb[n] that are fbcon-specific,
'con_rotate' and 'con_rotate_all' are moved to fbcon.  They are renamed as
'rotate' and 'rotate_all' respectively.

Overall, this feature is a great help for developers working in the
framebuffer or console layer.  There is not need to continually reboot the
kernel for every small change. It is also useful for regular users who wants
to choose between a graphical console or a text console without having to
reboot.

Example usage for x86:

/* start in text mode */
modprobe xxxfb
modprobe fbcon
/* graphical mode with fbcon using xxxfb */
echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/detach
/* back to text mode, will produce corrupt display unless vbetool is used */
rmmod xxxfb
modprobe yyyfb
/* back to graphical mode with fbcon using yyyfb */

Before trying out this feature, please read Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt.

This patch:

In order for fbcon to detach itself from the console layer, vgacon, which is a
boot console driver, must be fixed so it can retake the console multiple
times, not just during init.  The following needs to be done:

- remove __init from the vgacon_startup, this is called again by
  take_over_console().

- vc->rows and vc->cols are set manually by vgacon during init. After init,
  vc_resize() can be used

- make sure the scrollback_buffer is not reallocated

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:32 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas 4f1bcaf094 [PATCH] vgacon: make VGA_MAP_MEM take size, remove extra use
VGA_MAP_MEM translates to ioremap() on some architectures.  It makes sense
to do this to vga_vram_base, because we're going to access memory between
vga_vram_base and vga_vram_end.

But it doesn't really make sense to map starting at vga_vram_end, because
we aren't going to access memory starting there.  On ia64, which always has
to be different, ioremapping vga_vram_end gives you something completely
incompatible with ioremapped vga_vram_start, so vga_vram_size ends up being
nonsense.

As a bonus, we often know the size up front, so we can use ioremap()
correctly, rather than giving it a zero size.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-22 15:05:58 -07:00
Malcom Parsons 26e780e8ef [PATCH] fbcon: fix limited scroll in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode
From: Malcom Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>

When scrolling up in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode with a large limited scroll
region, the bottom few lines have to be redrawn.  Without this patch, the
wrong text is drawn into these lines, corrupting the display.

Observed in 2.6.14 when running an IRC client in the Nintendo DS linux
port.

I haven't tested if scrolling down has the same problem.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08 15:12:21 -07:00
David Hollister 308af9290a [PATCH] fbcon: fix scrollback with logo issue immediately after boot
From: David Hollister <david.hollister@amd.com>

After the system boots with the logo, if the first action is a scrollback, the
screen may become garbled.  This patch ensures that the softback_curr value is
updated along with softback_in following the scrollback.

Signed-off-by: David Hollister <david.hollister@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-31 16:27:10 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas 1a37d5f510 [PATCH] fbcon: Save current display during initialization
The current display was not saved during initialization.  This leads to hard
to track console corruption, such as a misplaced cursor, which is correctible
by switching consoles.  Fix this minor bug.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:19:00 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi 9b41046cd0 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).

And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().

	start_kernel()
		-> parse_args()
			-> unknown_bootoption()
				-> obsolete_checksetup()

If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
handled.

If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
a parameter is seted to argv_init[].

Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.

This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Helge Deller 857600c771 [PARISC] Fix stifb with IOREMAP and a 64-bit kernel
Kill various warnings when built using ioremap.
Remove stifb_{read,write} functions, which are now obsolete (and stack abusers!)
Disable stifb mmap() functionality on a 64-bit kernel, it will crash the
machine.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30 17:48:47 +00:00
Tobias Klauser d1ae418eef [PATCH] drivers/video: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of ARRAY_SIZE.  Some coding style and trailing whitespaces are
also fixed.

Compile-tested where possible (some are other arch or BROKEN)

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:58 -08:00
Ralf Baechle ac3f9087d3 [PATCH] sparse: Fix warnings in newport driver about non-static functions
There are more sparse warnings but fixing those will require some more work
than I want to do without hardware for testing at hand.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:57 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas 15bdab959c [PATCH] vgacon: Add support for soft scrollback
The scrollback buffer of the VGA console is located in VGA RAM.  This RAM
is fixed in size and is very small.  To make the scrollback buffer larger,
it must be placed instead in System RAM.

This patch adds this feature.  The feature and the size of the buffer are
made as a kernel config option.  Besides consuming kernel memory, this
feature will slow down the console by approximately 20%.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@kmlinux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:55 -08:00