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| author | Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> | 2009-04-14 01:39:41 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-14 02:04:29 +0400 |
| commit | ebde441177da3bad156701d351509f34295282ab (patch) | |
| tree | 816eca54fcde1e42d4ba81ab80533188724a64ee /drivers/video | |
| parent | 513adb58685615b0b1d47a3f0d40f5352beff189 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ebde441177da3bad156701d351509f34295282ab.tar.xz | |
fbdev: fix color component field length documentation
The documentation about the meaning of the color component bitfield
lengths in pseudocolor modes is inconsistent. Fix it, so that it
indicates the correct interpretation everywhere, i.e. that 1 << length is
the number of palette entries.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/skeletonfb.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/vfb.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/skeletonfb.c b/drivers/video/skeletonfb.c index a439159204a8..89158bc71da2 100644 --- a/drivers/video/skeletonfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/skeletonfb.c @@ -308,9 +308,11 @@ static int xxxfb_setcolreg(unsigned regno, unsigned red, unsigned green, * color depth = SUM(var->{color}.length) * * Pseudocolor: - * var->{color}.offset is 0 - * var->{color}.length contains width of DAC or the number of unique - * colors available (color depth) + * var->{color}.offset is 0 unless the palette index takes less than + * bits_per_pixel bits and is stored in the upper + * bits of the pixel value + * var->{color}.length is set so that 1 << length is the number of + * available palette entries * pseudo_palette is not used * RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue) * color depth = var->{color}.length diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c index cc919ae46571..050d432c7d95 100644 --- a/drivers/video/vfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c @@ -318,13 +318,16 @@ static int vfb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green, u_int blue, * {hardwarespecific} contains width of RAMDAC * cmap[X] is programmed to (X << red.offset) | (X << green.offset) | (X << blue.offset) * RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue) - * + * * Pseudocolor: - * uses offset = 0 && length = RAMDAC register width. - * var->{color}.offset is 0 - * var->{color}.length contains widht of DAC + * var->{color}.offset is 0 unless the palette index takes less than + * bits_per_pixel bits and is stored in the upper + * bits of the pixel value + * var->{color}.length is set so that 1 << length is the number of available + * palette entries * cmap is not used * RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue) + * * Truecolor: * does not use DAC. Usually 3 are present. * var->{color}.offset contains start of bitfield |