On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:51:07PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 04:32:22PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > The HW cursor of Matrox G200 cards only supports a 16-color palette > > format. Univeral planes require at least ARGB or a similar component- > > based format. Converting a cursor image from ARGB to 16 colors does not > > produce pleasent-looking results in general, so remove the HW cursor. > > What impact does this have in useability? > Does the cursor behaviour stay the same or? xorg/wayland switch to software cursor then. Shouldn't be a big difference. If you wanna check how userspace behaves without g200 hardware you can try qemu. stdvga (bochs-drm.ko) has no hardware cursor, virtio-vga (virtio-gpu.ko) has a hardware cursor. > The patch looks fine, but it seems a bit gross ditching curcor support. > But maybe it is the right choice, I dunno. cirrus driver does the same. The hardware has cursor support, but not rgba, and it is not used. take care, Gerd _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
