[PATCH] allow 32bpp framebuffers for cirrus drm

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 04:00:00 PDT 2014


On Di, 2014-10-28 at 17:04 +0000, Zachary Reizner wrote:
>         revision bump would be needed when adding a new interface (not
>         present
>         in real hardware) to allow for larger pitches, so you could
>         use 32bpp
>         with the default (1024x768) resolution.
> I did not change the pitch mechanism.

Sure.  That was Adams idea to make the patch more useful.

> The hardware is limited to less than a 4KB pitch because of the
> registers, so I kept that limitation in the driver. That means no
> revision bump is necessary.

Yes, but it also implies that 32bpp will work on very low resolutions
only (excluding the default res of 1024x768).  I don't think the patch
is very useful because of that.  Nevertheless no objections to include
it from my side.

cheers,
  Gerd





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