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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).

 --- fbcon-cfb2.c.orig Fri May 24 10:24:17 2002

      */

 static u_char nibbletab_cfb2[]={
-#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
  0x00,0x03,0x0c,0x0f,
  0x30,0x33,0x3c,0x3f,
  0xc0,0xc3,0xcc,0xcf,
  0xf0,0xf3,0xfc,0xff
-#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
- 0x00,0xc0,0x30,0xf0,
- 0x0c,0xcc,0x3c,0xfc,
- 0x03,0xc3,0x33,0xf3,
- 0x0f,0xcf,0x3f,0xff
-#else
-#error FIXME: No endianness??
-#endif
 };

--- fbcon-cfb4.c.orig Fri May 24 10:24:27 2002

     0xf000,0xf00f,0xf0f0,0xf0ff,
     0xff00,0xff0f,0xfff0,0xffff
 #elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
-    0x0000,0xf000,0x0f00,0xff00,
-    0x00f0,0xf0f0,0x0ff0,0xfff0,
-    0x000f,0xf00f,0x0f0f,0xff0f,
-    0x00ff,0xf0ff,0x0fff,0xffff
+    0x0000,0x0f00,0xf000,0xff00,
+    0x000f,0x0f0f,0xf00f,0xff0f,
+    0x00f0,0x0ff0,0xf0f0,0xfff0,
+    0x00ff,0x0fff,0xf0ff,0xffff
 #else
 #error FIXME: No endianness??
 #endif

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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.

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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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Quote:> > 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.

All is possible but for LITTLE ENDIAN and BIG ENDIAN are clearly defined by
the swap of bytes only and not the order of bytes, you can't use the same
definition LITTLE_ENDIAN for swapping bytes in part of hardware (0xABCD ->
0xCDAB) and swapping bytes orders in overs hardwares parts (0xABCD ->
0xDCBA). I suppose this swap order has been introduced for specifics
hardwares requirements, it's ok but only with another option than LITTLE
ENDIAN, since it's incoherent.

Fran?ois.

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