re more people using it or more testing, or more distros
> supporting it - not just (theoretically?) working on it - then I'd be
> fighting to keep it.
I wish I had some arguments for that point... I will just re-mention Qemu,
as it makes testing quite easy and reasonably not-too-slow.
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
n here!).
If there's still a distribution willing to build for Sparc v8, then I
believe the kernel
should try to keep support of the relevant machine architectures if at all
possible...
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
James Simmons wrote:
> I will intergrate your changes into my fbgen 2.
Guess that means it's OK to ask for integration.
I repost it with proper inlining (sorry about that)
Description of the patch:
> the attached patch fix a problem with `fbgen' when changing the
> RGBA components but not the
James Simmons wrote:
I will intergrate your changes into my fbgen 2.
Guess that means it's OK to ask for integration.
I repost it with proper inlining (sorry about that)
Description of the patch:
the attached patch fix a problem with `fbgen' when changing the
RGBA components but not the
Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> If on your console you do a 'fbset -depth 16 -rgba 5,6,5,0' followed by
> a 'fbset -depth 16 -rgba 5,5,5,1' [1], any driver using fbdev will end
That should have been 'fbgen', sorry for the momentary
> This happens every time you VC switch.
[snip]
> But because of the way the current console system
> is designed the colormap will always be set on VC switches.
The fix wasn't intended for VC switch, but for any change of
fb_var_screeninfo parameter. Those can happen without VC switching,
Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
> RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
> the colormap in this case, where it should.
This is the same patch but using memcmp() on the 3 color
components.
--
DOLBE
Romain Dolbeau wrote:
the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
the colormap in this case, where it should.
This is the same patch but using memcmp() on the 3 color
components.
--
DOLBEAU Romain
This happens every time you VC switch.
[snip]
But because of the way the current console system
is designed the colormap will always be set on VC switches.
The fix wasn't intended for VC switch, but for any change of
fb_var_screeninfo parameter. Those can happen without VC switching,
that's
Romain Dolbeau wrote:
If on your console you do a 'fbset -depth 16 -rgba 5,6,5,0' followed by
a 'fbset -depth 16 -rgba 5,5,5,1' [1], any driver using fbdev will end
That should have been 'fbgen', sorry for the momentary lapse
James Simmons wrote:
>
> > the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
> > RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
> > the colormap in this case, where it should.
>
> It would be much easier to use a memcmp.
For the color component, yes, but you can't use a
James Simmons wrote:
the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
the colormap in this case, where it should.
It would be much easier to use a memcmp.
For the color component, yes, but you can't use a memcmp
Hello,
the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
the colormap in this case, where it should.
--
romain
fbgen.patch.gz
Hello,
the attached patch fix a problem with fbgen when changing the
RGBA components but not the depth ; fbgen would not change
the colormap in this case, where it should.
--
romain
fbgen.patch.gz
ed, here's the MAINTAINERS
stuff: (not yet included in the linux kernel patches)
PERMEDIA 3 FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
P: Romain Dolbeau
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
L: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W: <http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dolbeau/pm3fb/pm3fb.html>
S: Maintained
Hope someone will find it useful,
--
the MAINTAINERS
stuff: (not yet included in the linux kernel patches)
PERMEDIA 3 FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
P: Romain Dolbeau
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
L: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W: http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dolbeau/pm3fb/pm3fb.html
S: Maintained
Hope someone will find it useful,
--
DOLBEAU Romain | l'histoire
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