Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:30:11 -0500 |
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said: > I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb). > Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting special > bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign endianess. > I understand that this patch is for chips which cannot reorder bytes by themselves.
Does anybody know of such a chip that's actually available in the wild? Or are we writing drivers for speculative possible chips? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |