[PATCH 1/6] fb: add a stride value to struct fb_info

Andre Heider a.heider at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 07:51:03 EDT 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:58:27PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 22:23 Thu 24 Oct     , Andre Heider wrote:
> > Add support for framebuffers with noncontiguous horizontal lines.
> > 
> > Video drivers can set this value if the hardware requires it.
> > In case a driver does not set it, the current value of
> > xres * (bpp / 8) is used instead.
> 
> we never use this in linux ever
> 
> so do not do this in barebox either

I assume you mean the provided fallback value?
And consequently converting all drivers to set the introduced stride
value themselves?

In that case, I considered doing that. I just don't have the hardware to
test all the drivers that's going to touch.

Thanks,
Andre



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