Re: Xfree86-4.0.1, Lombard, Mach64 driver, X-server Crash

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

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Takashi Oe wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > In 2.5.x, we'll have a user-defined xor mask for the cursor as the 17th entry
> > > > in the dispsw_data array.
> > >
> > > Can we put it for 2.4?  As far as I can see, the actual size of
> > > dispsw_data matters only between fb driver and fbcon-cfbxx.c, and the
> > > changes required for each driver seem to be rather small.  Besides,
> > > controlfb is not the only one which will benefit from this change.
> >
> > That's true. Personally, I see no problems with it if someone's willing to
> > write the patch for _all_ drivers at once. The real 2.4.0 is still a long way
> > to go, I think, and the impact of the required changes is known quite well.
>
> Good!  I'll work on it.  Only a few allocate memory for dispsw_data
> dynamically, the changes should be trivial for most.
>
> > The main thing we need to be careful about is that the xor mask is different
> > for truecolor and directcolor visuals: truecolor needs an `all ones' mask,
> > while directcolor needs `15' for each color component (drivers that incorrectly
> > report a directcolor instead of truecolor visual will easily be identified).
>
> I don't know how it will work out for atyfb, but we'll see...

Atyfb is directcolor. Grep fro VISUAL_ to find out :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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