From: Peter Horton <pdh@berserk.demon.co.uk>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Radeon frame buffer driver
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:19:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410101913.GA975@berserk.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020410094055.GA789@berserk.demon.co.uk> <20020410105731.28774@mailhost.mipsys.com>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:57:31AM +0100, benh@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
>
> Fine, though I noticed the get_cmap_len got changed to
> + return var->bits_per_pixel == 8 ? 256 : 16;
>
The colour map is only used by the kernel and the kernel only uses 16
entries so there isn't any reason to waste memory by making it any
larger. I checked a few other drivers and they do the same (aty128fb for
one).
P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-10 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 0:12 Peter Horton
2002-04-10 2:31 ` Jonathan A. Davis
2002-04-10 6:04 ` Ani Joshi
2002-04-10 9:06 ` benh
2002-04-10 9:40 ` Peter Horton
2002-04-10 10:57 ` benh
2002-04-10 10:19 ` Peter Horton [this message]
2002-04-10 11:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-10 13:01 ` benh
2002-04-10 12:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-10 13:27 ` benh
2002-04-10 13:03 ` Peter Horton
2002-04-10 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-10 23:09 ` Peter Horton
2002-04-10 13:00 ` benh
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