On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:20 AM Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net> wrote:
>
> Introduce stdvga_dac_read_many() and stdvga_dac_write_many() for
> writing multiple dac palette entries.  Convert the stdvga_dac_read()
> and stdvga_dac_write() low-level IO access functions in stdvgaio.c to
> access just one color palette entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net>
> --
>
> There should not be any functional change resulting from this patch.
> However, during mode switches (and a few other rare calls) there will
> likely be a few more outb() calls due to additional writes to the dac
> index register.  In theory this could adversely impact performance,
> but in practice I think it is unlikely it will be noticeable.  The
> original code was also not optimized (it already makes a large number
> of redundant writes to the dac index register), and performance
> sensitve code already avoids using the vgabios.

Looks reasonable to me, and .red/.green/.blue is definitely more
readable than the array indexing. I don't think the performance
difference should practically matter either.

Thanks,
-- Daniel
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