From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jon@nerdgrounds.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon DIRECTCOLOR -> TRUECOLOR patch
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:57:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225.035712.103590506.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A52A73.2000406@nerdgrounds.com>
From: Jonathan Campbell <jon@nerdgrounds.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:24:35 -0800
[ Ben H. is the Radeon driver maintainer, as listed in
linux/MAINTAINERS, you might want to CC: him ]
> I don't know about you but when I ask the framebuffer to set up
> 16-bit or 32-bit RGB modes I expect a video mode to be set up with
> R, G, and B mapped linearly so that I can display images properly,
> not some odd "directcolor" mode that seems to serve no other purpose
> than to avoid a few shifts converting the fbcon palette to an RGB
> triplet.
It might be using DIRECTCOLOR for compatibility with openfirmware,
BOOTX, or similar on PowerPC.
Ben?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 11:24 Jonathan Campbell
2009-02-25 11:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-02-25 20:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-25 21:00 ` Jonathan Campbell
[not found] ` <49A5B150.8070703@nerdgrounds.com>
2009-02-26 2:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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