[PATCH 3/5] DRM: Armada: Add support for ARGB 32x64 or 64x32 hardware cursors

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 7 11:40:08 CEST 2013


On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:09:56 +0100
> Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds ARGB hardware cursor support to the DRM driver for the
> > Marvell Armada SoCs.  ARGB cursors are supported at either 32x64 or
> > 64x32 resolutions.
> 	[snip]
> 
> I don't see the interest of such cursors. Actually, most often, the
> cursors are 64x64 and 'A' is either 0 or 0xff. As the Armada 510
> supports 64x64 cursors with transparency, it would be more useful to
> implement these ones...

Sorry, you're completely wrong there.  Xorg uses an alphablended cursor.
This patch is a result of trialling each of the Armada's cursor options
and this is the only one which results in a reasonable looking cursor.


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