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 Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:31 pm Post subject: Missing boot logos with ker>=3.18 (Solved by a bad hack) |
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These have worked for years but do not with ker>=3.18 even 'tho the relevant kernel configs are the same.
The screen does go to fbdev but the penquins do not show. (Well actually they are my cat, but that surely is irrelevant.)
my grub line is | Code: | | linux /vmlinuz-gentoo video:mtrr,ywrap 1024x768 net.ifnames=0 ro quiet |
Is any one else having this problem?
PS I am using the i9i5 driver and fbdev, but if I reconfigure to use veafbdev I still have no boot logos.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I have found the following at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.4
| Quote: | commit 7c73bd96b40f4fd3ed5064e73dc96139a18fe463
Author: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Date: Thu Dec 18 13:40:06 2014 +0200
video/logo: prevent use of logos after they have been freed
commit 92b004d1aa9f367c372511ca0330f58216b25703 upstream.
If the probe of an fb driver has been deferred due to missing
dependencies, and the probe is later ran when a module is loaded, the
fbdev framework will try to find a logo to use.
However, the logos are __initdata, and have already been freed. This
causes sometimes page faults, if the logo memory is not mapped,
sometimes other random crashes as the logo data is invalid, and
sometimes nothing, if the fbdev decides to reject the logo (e.g. the
random value depicting the logo's height is too big).
This patch adds a late_initcall function to mark the logos as freed. In
reality the logos are freed later, and fbdev probe may be ran between
this late_initcall and the freeing of the logos. In that case we will
miss drawing the logo, even if it would be possible.
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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I only sort of understand it but expect that it accounts for my missing logo problem.
Further Questions:
(1) Does this give anyone any ideas for fixes?
(2) Does anyone have boot logos showing with the 3.18.7 kernel? |
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I solved this by copying "drivers/video/logo/logo.c" from gentoo-sources-3.17.8-r1 to gentoo-sources-3.18.7.
However this solution is not really a good one as evidently upstream kernel views the new logo.c as an improvement.
Any comments or insights would be appreciated. |
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