fbcon-cfb8.c

[Henning Loeser]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Henning Loeser wrote:
> > trying to fix my console character displayment I wonder whether I'm
> > looking at the right place ?????
> > When in the console with 8bpp, fbcon-cfb8.c is the driver the kernel uses
> > right? Not the tdfxfb driver for the card?
>
> Tdxfb is accelerated. So unless you disable acceleration, it uses the
> operations in fbcon_banshee8 in tdxfb.c:
>
>     info->dispsw = noaccel ? fbcon_cfb8 : fbcon_banshee8
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> 						Geert

Thanks, if I simply make it call fbcon-cfb8 no matter what the font
appears correctly. So I guess what I have to acctually do is to fix the
'do_putc' and 'do_putcs' functions in tdfxfb.c to diplay BIGENDIAN
characters correctly.
That's what your nibbletab_cfb8 does in fbcon-cfb8 right?

Henning
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Henning Loeser					      Fachbereich Physik
email: henning.loeser at physik.uni-marburg.de	      AG Oberflaechen
						      Philipps-Uni Marburg


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