* Geert Uytterhoeven -- Monday 04 June 2001 14:20:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > The attached patch fixes that bug and enables 8--12 bit wide fonts, thus
> > disabling the "No support ..." messages. I haven't found an indication that
>
> Does it work now for fonts with width 16? I'd expect so.
It works for 8 and 12 pixels wide fonts on my 80686 little-endian. I don't have
a 16 pixel font, but such a font should even have worked with the bug, because
like with a 8 bit font the pattern would by fortune have come out right.
> BTW, instead of using #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN and swapping explicitly, it's
> better to use the cpu_to_be* macros.
I see. I just grepped through some source files and saw these ifdef's everywhere,
so I didn't feel especially guilty. ;-)
> > there are any Voodoo3/Banshee cards for big endian machines. The bugfix implies
> > that they never could have worked. (But if they have indeed, they would be
> > broken after applying the patch. Could someone comment on this, please?)
>
> Yes, people are using Voodoo3 boards on PPC. But they require(d) some patches,
> IIRC.
Ahh. Maybe someone with a PPC could test that patch. New version (without ifdef)
attached.
m.
PS: My emails don't seem to make it to the kernel-list. Or is a delay of more
than two hours considered normal?! Now I'm trying via a smart-host ...
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