Re: Bug in vga16fb?

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:48:48AM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>> Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> 
> Even if we find some possibility to autodetect what hardware does (or in
> case of another, non-VGA hardware using CFB4 mode) there would be
> problem that driver cannot say it to userspace (or generic kernel
> functions like cfb_imageblit). Maybe there should be some flag in
> type_aux specifying whether given packed pixel mode is LSB-first or
> MSB-first (relevant only for bpp % 8 != 0) ?
> 

var->{red|green|blue|transp}.msb_right

This field is currently ignored by fbcon, but you can use this field to
inform userspace what you want.

And once a driver uses this flag, we can probably alter the drawing
functions to not ignore this flag.

Tony


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