From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix the HGA framebuffer driver
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:47:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110106064742.GE15340@linux-sh.org> (raw)
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:56:50PM -0600, Brent Cook wrote:
> Resurrected some old hardware and fixed up the hgafb driver to work again. Only
> tested with fbcon, since most fbdev-based software appears to only support
> 12bpp and up. It does not appear that this driver has worked for at least the
> entire 2.6.x series, perhaps since 2002.
>
> I sent this to the sourceforge mailing list before realizing the list had
> moved. http://www.linux-fbdev.org/ has the wrong mailing list info.
>
> Regards,
> Brent
>
> Signed-off-by: Brent Cook <busterb@gmail.com>
>
> Hercules graphics hardware uses packed pixels horizontally, but rows are not
> linear. In other words, the pixels are not packed vertically. This means that
> custom imageblit, fillrect and copyarea need to be written specific to the
> hardware.
>
> * Removed the experimental acceleration option, since it is required for the
> hardware to work.
> * Fixed imageblit to work with fb_image's wider than 8 pixels.
> * Updated configuration text (HGA hardware is from 1984)
I shuffled the changelog around to include these bits and applied it,
thanks.
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