This patch works on my hardware. Xorg starts up fine with fbdev now.
Thanks for the fix!
--G?nther
Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org> writes:
> Commit [0] stopped setting fix.smem_start and fix.smem_len when creating
> the fbdev.
>
> [0] 2f1eab8d8ab59e799f7d51d62410b398607a7bc3
> drm/exynos/fbdev: don't set fix.smem/mmio_{start,len}
>
> However, smem_len is used by some userland applications to calculate the
> size for mmap. In particular, it is used by xf86-video-fbdev:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/fbdevhw.c?id=xorg-server-1.15.99.903#n571
>
> So, let's restore setting the smem_len to unbreak things for these users.
>
> Note: we are still leaving smem_start set to 0.
>
> Reported-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com>
> Reported-by: G?nther Noack <me at guenthernoack.de>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz at chromium.org>
> ---
> I am able to compile test this change, but would appreciate help testing it
> on a system that uses xf86-video-fbdev.
>
> Thanks!
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
> index 5a7cd8b..f865736 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_fbdev.c
> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static int exynos_drm_fbdev_update(struct drm_fb_helper
> *helper,
>
> fbi->screen_base = buffer->kvaddr;
> fbi->screen_size = size;
> + fbi->fix.smem_len = size;
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
