Re: [PATCH] gma500: gtt based hardware scrolling console

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 22:21, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> > +       info->fix.ywrapstep = gtt_roll;
>>
>> Do you really want to set this? I didn't see any other wrapping
>> support in your patch.
>> However, I guess you can implement wrapping support using the same
>> mapping trick?
>
> It is actually wrapping - it writes the low pages back below the high
> ones so it works the GTT as a circular buffer - or am I misunderstanding
> this.

Then it should not set ypanstep to a non-zero value, and set/handle the other
various *YWRAP flags, to communicate with the frame buffer console driver.

Panning is moving inside a virtual screen bigger than the visible screen size.

> One thing I wasn't sure of on the fb side. If I've got a display width
> that is annoying and can't fit on a 4Kbyte stride am I right in thinking
> I can set this to say 8 and use a 512 byte stride and still get
> acceleration for the usual font choice ?

Yep, that should work. The console code can use ywrap resp. ypan if the
font height is a multiple of ywrapstep resp. ypanstep.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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