Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:26:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:26:34 -0500 Received: from smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.23]:50606 "EHLO mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 02:26:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:35:08 +0100 To: James Simmons Cc: Petr Vandrovec , Antonino Daplas , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FBdev updates. Message-ID: <20030306073508.GA1734@iliana> References: <20030303203500.GA2916@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Sven Luther Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1760 Lines: 41 On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:22:26PM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > Hi, > > while waiting on these updates I updated matroxfb a bit > > (ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/matrox-latest/matroxfb-2.5.63.gz), > > so that it now uses fb_* for cfb modes, and putcs/... hooks for > > text mode. I have still dozen of changes in fbcon.c which I have > > to eliminate (mainly logo painting and cursor handling - for now > > I still use revc method, mainly because of I did not make into it yet). > > I grabbed your latest patch and started to merge it with my latest work on > the matrox driver. As soon as I'm done merging my matrox changes I will > send you a patch right away. > > > My main concern now is 12x22 font... Accelerator setup > > is so costly for each separate painted character that for 8bpp > > accelerated version is even slower than unaccelerated one :-( > > (and almost twice as slow when compared with 2.4.x). > > Try the latest patch I released. > > > And one (or two...) generic questions: why is not pseudo_palette > > u32* pseudo_palette, or even directly u32 pseudo_palette[17] ? > > pseudo_palette was originally designed to be a pointer to some kind of > data for color register programming. For example many PPC graphics cards > have a color register region. Now you could have that point to Does this correspond to the LUT i have in my boards ? BTW, what is the point in having a pseudo_palette if you can store the colors in the onchip LUT table. Friendly, Sven Luther - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/