> On Thursday 01 February 2007 03:42, Ricardo Lugo wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> Big-Endian systems are good to go ENC and DEC-wise. And it seems that
>> the problems plaguing SMP machines are no more (at least on PPC SMP
>> machines :-).
>>
>> I can see a pattern emerging with these byteswaps. I will try to
>> figure out what is wrong with the colors on the PPC FrameBuffer
>> (hopefully it is something simple). Any hints on variables/functions
>> that might determine the colors?
>
> Some graphic cards can be configured to match the cpu endian.
> Unfortunately
> I've not been able to find a method of doing this on the 350. This means
> that
> software has to do the byte swapping.
>
> I've had a quick look at this, and from what I can make out, the only way
> to
> fix the problem with X is through the X driver itself. If you can compile
> &
> run the ivtv X driver, you're part way there.
I can confirm that it is not possible. While it is apparently possible in
the firmware, the extra processing requirements mean that other items do
not work anymore. At least, that is what I heard.
Anyway, it isn't much of a problem to do an extra swap.
Regards,
Hans
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