From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
To: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE]: VM86 Daemon
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:22:09 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030401152209.91116.qmail@web14913.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049203284.1050.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>
--- Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> wrote:
> 4. fb_validate_mode(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var,
> struct fb_info *info)
>
> - validate mode timings in var
>
> 5. fb_get_mode(int flags, int val, struct
> fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct
> fb_info *info)
>
> - compute mode timings using GTF (refresh driven,
> hsync driven, pixclock
> driven, or maximized refresh) and place result in
> var
>
> #4 and #5 are already in fbmon.c
>
Wouldn't it be better to make fb_get_mode only return
the list of valid modes based on the hardware and
monitor (if available) combination rather than letting
the app sort it out?
We could then make a new IOCTL fb_get_hwmode for
returning the card's capabilities if more detail is
desired.
=====
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@yahoo.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-31 9:53 [ANNOUNCE]: VM86 Daemon Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 0:07 ` Jon Smirl
2003-04-01 0:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2003-04-01 1:27 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 8:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 9:41 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 11:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 13:38 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 13:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 15:32 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 15:22 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2003-04-01 16:25 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 16:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 18:30 ` Small API change Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 20:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-04-01 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-02 22:01 ` James Simmons
2003-04-02 22:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-01 1:04 ` [ANNOUNCE]: VM86 Daemon Antonino Daplas
2003-04-01 4:01 ` Jon Smirl
2003-04-01 9:41 ` Antonino Daplas
[not found] ` <20030401120835.GA30421@skunk.convergence.de>
2003-04-01 13:38 ` [directfb-dev] " Antonino Daplas
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