Re: AW: Microwindows on Icecube/CoralP

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

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jarno Manninen wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Martin Krause wrote:
> > Hm, the SM501 has 8 MB internal RAM. The framebuffer lies within this
> > memory. The SM501 is connected with the MPC5200 over the local bus
> > interface (not over PCI) and mapped with CS1 to address range
> > 0xE0000000-0xE3FFFFFF. The SM501 configuration registers are within
> > the mapped memory area at 0xE3E00000. I can't imagine, why the byte
> > swapping should only affect accesses to the famebuffer memory and not
> > to the configuration registers (where also single bits at the right
> > position must be set correctly). I could configure CS1 to do byte
> > swapping, but then access to the SM501 configuration registers does
> > not work any longer, because this bytes are swapped, too.
> 
> Um. Have you written a kernel FB driver? If so then the write/read macros
> do this swapping for you. Assuming that you use those for accessing the
> device registers. At least SM722 requires those writes to be swapped too.

Indeed.

> > Geert, I've seen, you have done much of the fb stuff in the linux
> > kernel (thank you for that!). Could you please point me to the best
> > place, where byte swapping should be done if I want to use the linux
> > text console in 16 bit mode with the MPC5200?
> 
> Perhaps the pseudopalette would suffice here, I guess? And supposing that

Yep, text console is simple: setcolreg() must fill in the correct pixel value
in the pseudo palette. If you swap it there, it will just work.

Logo is more difficult, you need your own imageblit().

> you have written a FB driver. If not then you have to do the patching at
> the gfx-library level.

And userspace needs to do swapping as well.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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