Re: 2.6 fbcon and 15/16 bpp

[John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>]

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?

>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:

Black        ->   Black
Blue         ->   Cyan
Green        ->   Black
Cyan         ->   Blue
Red          ->   Brown
Magenta      ->   Lt Green
Brown        ->   Brown
Lt Gray      ->   Lt Green
Dk Grey      ->   Dk Purple
Lt Blue      ->   Lt Blue
Lt Green     ->   Dk Purple
Lt Cyan      ->   Lt Blue
Lt Red       ->   Lt Red
Lt Magenta   ->   Lt Magenta
Yellow       ->   Lt Red
White        ->   Lt Magenta


With the OUTREG's left in and the "green =" line commented out:

Black        ->   Black
Blue         ->   Cyan
Green        ->   Black
Cyan         ->   Blue
Red          ->   Brown
Magenta      ->   Lt Green
Brown        ->   Brown
Lt Gray      ->   Lt Green
Dk Gray      ->   Dk Gray
Lt Blue      ->   Lt Blue
Lt Green     ->   Lt Green
Lt Cyan      ->   Lt Cyan
Lt Red       ->   Lt Red
Lt Magenta   ->   Lt Magenta
Yellow       ->   Yellow
White        ->   White


John




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