From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Console text selection bug
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 21:29:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA69A1D.F1F85B48@denise.shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.05.10103060750360.29713-100000@callisto.of.borg
>> It's an endian bug in fbcon when accessing the text/attribute buffer.
> Nevertheless, it's a bug. Can someone please change fbcon_invert_region() to
> use scr_{read,write}w() to access the shadow screen buffer and see whether it
> works? Patches are accepted at linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net :-)
Yes, it's an endianess bug. scr_{read,write}w() are defined as normal
assignments in vt_buffer.h, so I wonder where is the bug. Is the shadow buffer
supposed to be native endian ?
Bye.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-07 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-03 17:09 Console text selection bug Giuliano Pochini
2001-03-05 21:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-03-06 6:18 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2001-03-06 6:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-03-07 20:29 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2001-03-10 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-03-05 23:48 ` Hollis R Blanchard
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