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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	avorontsov@ru.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:30:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19805.1203355811@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100." <20080218081847.e9e65f2f.krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>

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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?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 15:44 [PATCH 1/2] fb: add support for foreign endianness Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-05 19:07 ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-15  6:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-15 16:45   ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-17  9:44     ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-18  7:18       ` Krzysztof Helt
2008-02-18 17:30         ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-02-18 17:37           ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-18 23:35           ` Clemens Koller
2008-02-19  0:35             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-19 11:27               ` Clemens Koller
2008-02-19 12:05                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-19 12:22                   ` Clemens Koller
2008-02-20  0:47                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-20  0:50                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-20  0:56                   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-02-20 12:18                     ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-20 20:38                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-21  4:59                       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-02-20 15:43                     ` Clemens Koller
2008-02-16 11:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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