On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:56:50PM -0600, Brent Cook wrote: > Resurrected some old hardware and fixed up the hgafb driver to work again. Only > tested with fbcon, since most fbdev-based software appears to only support > 12bpp and up. It does not appear that this driver has worked for at least the > entire 2.6.x series, perhaps since 2002. > > I sent this to the sourceforge mailing list before realizing the list had > moved. http://www.linux-fbdev.org/ has the wrong mailing list info. > > Regards, > Brent > > Signed-off-by: Brent Cook <busterb@xxxxxxxxx> > > Hercules graphics hardware uses packed pixels horizontally, but rows are not > linear. In other words, the pixels are not packed vertically. This means that > custom imageblit, fillrect and copyarea need to be written specific to the > hardware. > > * Removed the experimental acceleration option, since it is required for the > hardware to work. > * Fixed imageblit to work with fb_image's wider than 8 pixels. > * Updated configuration text (HGA hardware is from 1984) I shuffled the changelog around to include these bits and applied it, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
