From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: mono, gray and index configs Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:28:52 +0800 Message-ID: <42FC79E4.2010209@gmail.com> References: <9e47339105081020216574ac7e@mail.gmail.com> <42FAE3F8.8080902@gmail.com> <42FB8C29.4070503@gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E3WnA-0005qT-Gj for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:29:36 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1E3WnA-0004L2-2W for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:29:36 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i21so569296wra for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:29:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Jon Smirl Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Antonino Daplas wrote: >>>> (Depending on how correct I am with the interpretation, there might be >>>> some bugs in fbdev on how it determines the color depth. No one is >>>> complaining yet though, so greater than 1-bit monochrome is probably >>>> rare if not nonexistent.) >>> There definitely are bugs w.r.t. this, especially in the 2.4 logo code ;-) >>> >> Yes, I would agree. Do you know of any outstanding bugs on color handling >> in 2.6 code, especially for hardware with bitdepths < 8? I would like to >> fix them. > > Unfortunately not. Due to personel reasons, I temporarily don't have much > time left to do real coding. > > You can always try vgafb's 16 color mode and check for yourself. That's okay. I'm actually emulating these low bit depths using pseudocolor whenever I look for bugs for depths < 4 (ie monochrome text attributes). I haven't found any yet except for the greater than 1-bit monochrome color handling which I've already fixed in my tree. Tony ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf