Xfree86-4.0.1, Lombard, Mach64 driver, X-server Crash

[Takashi Oe]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > > In 2.5.x, we'll have a user-defined xor mask for the cursor as the 17th entry
> > > in the dispsw_data array.
> >
> > Can we put it for 2.4?  As far as I can see, the actual size of
> > dispsw_data matters only between fb driver and fbcon-cfbxx.c, and the
> > changes required for each driver seem to be rather small.  Besides,
> > controlfb is not the only one which will benefit from this change.
>
> That's true. Personally, I see no problems with it if someone's willing to
> write the patch for _all_ drivers at once. The real 2.4.0 is still a long way
> to go, I think, and the impact of the required changes is known quite well.

Good!  I'll work on it.  Only a few allocate memory for dispsw_data
dynamically, the changes should be trivial for most.

> The main thing we need to be careful about is that the xor mask is different
> for truecolor and directcolor visuals: truecolor needs an `all ones' mask,
> while directcolor needs `15' for each color component (drivers that incorrectly
> report a directcolor instead of truecolor visual will easily be identified).

I don't know how it will work out for atyfb, but we'll see...


Takashi Oe


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