Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness

Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-18T17:31:34Z

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said:
> I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb).
> Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special
> bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess.
> I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves.

Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? Or are
we writing drivers for speculative possible chips?

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