Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: status

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 25 Nov 2002, Johan Bolmsjo wrote:
> > For what it's worth, the interleaved modes on atari works like this:
> > 
> > The bitplanes are interleaved on 16 bit big-endian word basis so if you
> > have two bitplanes, bit 0 of the first 16 pixels would be in the first
> > 16 bit word in the display memory, bit 1 of the first 16 pixels would be
> > in the second word. With bit 0 I mean as masked out by & 0x0001 in C,
> > and bit 1 as masked out by 0x0002.
> 
> Thanks! This is exactly the kind of information I needed!
> 
> I added simple unoptimized support for Atari interleaved bitplanes to fbtest.
> When I know I got the basics right, I can start writing optimized drawing
> routines.
> 
> Anyone who cares to give it a try? Just check out CVS module `fbtest' from
> http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=908, type `make' and run `fbtest' for all
> available color depths (use fbset first), and tell me whether it works.
> 
> If no one is left with an Atari with Linux/m68k installed, I can create a
> ramdisk containing fbset and fbtest, so you just need ataboot and a kernel to
> test it.

I put the ramdisk at

    http://home.tvd.be/cr26864/Linux/m68k/ramdisk-fbtest-m68k.gz

Just boot it with whatever kernel (incl. atafb, of course) you have, and run
`fbtest' for all available color depths. You can change the color depth with
`fbset -depth <depth>'. Note that it will be slow, since so far I implemented
single pixel drawing only.

Thanks for testing!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

P.S. Sorry that it took that long, but my Amiga 4000 needed urgent surgery due
     to a leaking NiCd battery that started to corrode the mainboard.
     Fortunately I managed to replace it in time by a new NiMH part.
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