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drm/nouveau: by default use low bpp framebuffer on low memory cards
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Framebuffer's BPP is not that important but can waste significant part
of memory on low-VRAM cards. Lower it to 8bpp on < 32MB cards and to
16bpp on 64MB cards. It can still be overridden by video= option.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
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mslusarz authored and Ben Skeggs committed Nov 9, 2011
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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
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Expand Up @@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ int nouveau_fbcon_init(struct drm_device *dev)
{
struct drm_nouveau_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
struct nouveau_fbdev *nfbdev;
int preferred_bpp;
int ret;

nfbdev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nouveau_fbdev), GFP_KERNEL);
Expand All @@ -505,7 +506,15 @@ int nouveau_fbcon_init(struct drm_device *dev)
}

drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(&nfbdev->helper);
drm_fb_helper_initial_config(&nfbdev->helper, 32);

if (dev_priv->vram_size <= 32 * 1024 * 1024)
preferred_bpp = 8;
else if (dev_priv->vram_size <= 64 * 1024 * 1024)
preferred_bpp = 16;
else
preferred_bpp = 32;

drm_fb_helper_initial_config(&nfbdev->helper, preferred_bpp);
return 0;
}

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