From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:30:11 -0500 Message-ID: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20080205154432.GA8749@localhost.localdomain> <20080214224942.a0cb6218.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080215164542.GB16810@localhost.localdomain> <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0912825083==" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR9p0-0006kp-5s for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:30:30 -0800 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1JR9ow-0002SN-N8 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:30:30 -0800 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100." <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Krzysztof Helt Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Andrew Morton , avorontsov@ru.mvista.com --===============0912825083== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess. > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves. Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? Or are we writing drivers for speculative possible chips? --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHucCjcC3lWbTT17ARAs3WAJsF9CsHmgfsLvqldWPilbhoVFS5NACfTFrJ i5E2PGuWzLogM8fqDx25xCo= =be6Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1203355811_2991P-- --===============0912825083== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ --===============0912825083== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Linux-fbdev-devel mailing list Linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel --===============0912825083==--