Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.4.18 endianness logical mistakes correction on

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 24 May 2002,  François Leblanc wrote:
> DESCRIPTIONS:
> 
> 2 small patchs to apply to:
> 
> drivers\video\fbcon-cfb2.c
> drivers\video\fbcon-cf4.c o
> 
> 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).

For pixels smaller than a byte, it also depends on what's the order of the
pixels in a byte. So all possibilities are actually possible.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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