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From: Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= <syrjala@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon,
	apertures & memory mapping)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:09:48 +0200
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel@daenzer.net>, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>, Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:31:16PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 00:21 -0500, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
>=20
> > > >=20
> > > > Actually people do use it on big-endian systems but since neither=
 the=20
> > > > mach64, ati128 or radeon drivers play with the swapper settings I=
 can only=20
> > > > assume that they haven't been tested very extensively.
> > >=20
> > > You are wrong here, all of those 3 drivers do play with the swapper
> > > setting, [...]
> >=20
> > I think he was referring to the DirectFB drivers.

Exactly. I prorably should have mentioned that explicitly.

> Well, do they "revert" it after atyfb/aty128fb/radeonfb set it then ?
> it's definitely set on mode switch.

The point is that there can be offscreen surfaces with different depth=20
than the fbdev surface.

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Ville Syrj=E4l=E4
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