Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] setcolreg vs. 565

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 20:36, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 23 Nov 01 at 16:34, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>=20
> > >Except that you can't change gamma, or am I on the wrong track here?
>=20
> No. But it is much better to provide _global_ gamma correction setting,
> so you can then apply this gamma table even to 8bit palettized mode,
> and even without app knowledge.

That would require a new API, no?

Right now, apps use the colormap for this, and I'd hate to prevent them
from doing so just because it's hard to get right.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
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