> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Nathan Hand wrote:
> > > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> > * The existing 4bpp texmode routines (fbcon-cfb4.c, written for Macs) have
> > problems with VGA 4bpp mode because it is big-endian. Fonts are garbled.
>
> Very easy to fix. Just put some endianness defines in nibbletab_cfb4[], cfr.
> nibbletab_cfb8[].
I did not see that! Now we need to fix the fact that fbcon-cfb4.c
hardwires the foreground color to 0xf |->.
> > * The video mode is currently fixed at compile time and cannot be switched
> > (resolution is always 640x400, depth is set with a #define). I need to
> > figure out how to make KGI's infinitely variable PLL mode generation
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > routines work with the mode tables that fbcon uses. Shouldn't be a big
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> > problem.
>
> Frame buffer devices also support arbitraty pixel clock values. They are
> specified by the clock period in picoseconds. Should be sufficiently accurate.
Sheesh. I'm batting .000 so far. But this will be fixed, thanks.
Jon
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