Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] atyfb: 2.5.54

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

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, James Simmons wrote:
> > Atyfb is known not to work on some Rage Mobility P/M (incl. the one in my Vaio
> > :-(
> 
> A have a few patchs for atyfb that I haven't got around to applying just 
> yet. One is Popov non BIOS patch for some cards. I have another patch for 
> a new DAC for older MACH 64 cards. The big issue I like to see solved is 
> to us ethe hardware cursor. Right now I have it disabled, its using 
> soft_cursor. I haven't had the time to look at teh specs for how the data 
> is layed out for the cursor image. We have in atyfb.h
> 
> struct aty_cursor {
> 	u8 bits[8][64];
> 	u8 mask[8][64];
> 	u8 *ram;
> }
> 
> This is really weird. I like to translate to the new api.

Each pixel in the Mach64 cursor has 4 possible values: transparent, inverting,
color0, or color1. It's size is 64x64, i.e. 64 rows of 8 bits per plane.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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