Re: 2.6 fbcon and 15/16 bpp

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:54, John Zielinski wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> >Intersting. The pseudo palette thing might have to be u32 indeed, I have
> >to double check. That sounds like a typical misdesign crap vs. endian
> >assuming a given value can be accessed via any size is a little endian
> >"feature" that doesn't work on BE.
> >  
> >
> 
> Except that this machine is LE.  Perhaps the software blit routine is 
> writing the entire 32 bit value to the frambuffer?

Possible.

> >The HW palette stuff for 16 bits is fine afaik (well, i wrote it ;), and it
> >works for XFree. What color problems do you have fixed when you comment
> >it out ?
> >  
> >
> 
> With the commented code left in or just the OUTREG's commented:

Well, the interesting thing is does X using "fbdev" has proper colors
(or X using "ati" driver with UseFBDev option). If yes, then that code
is right. It's the console/blit code that is wrong.

Ben.




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