Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.4.18 endianness logical mistakes correction on fbcon-cfb2.c and fbcon-cfb4.c

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 24 May 2002 11:06:18 +0100

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:55:38AM +0200, François Leblanc wrote:
> This patchs correct the endianness logical of nibbletab, the first table is
> u_char mades so no endian needed and the second swap correctly bytes in
> LITTLE_ENDIAN. (old version swap half bytes instead of bytes).

A recent discussion on the ARM mailing lists has highlighted that hardware
designers seem to like connecting such things like LCD panels up to devices
in weird and wonderful ways - sometimes with a set of 4 pixels reversed,
sometimes with even weirder connectivity. I've pointed them at the
framebuffer dev list.

Certainly your fbcon-cfb4 changes will break at least one of my machines
here.

Please talk this over with the framebuffer dev list.

linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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