Paul, thanks very much.

Chethan

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Paul Menzel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Chethan,
>
>
> Am Montag, den 13.12.2010, 14:34 -0500 schrieb Chethan Pandarinath:
> > Hi everybody, this may not be the right place to ask this question, but I
> > don't really know who to address it to, so maybe someone here can point
> me
> > in the right direction.
> >
> > I have been working on setting up a video framebuffer and writing to it
> on
> > an OMAP 3530 device (TI beagleboard). It appears that the definitions
> > in drivers/video/omap/omapfb.h are incorrect (possibly out of date?),
> which
> > caused a lot of confusion while trying to set up my framebuffer.
> >
> > Specifically, I'm trying to set the properties of my framebuffer, using
> the
> > ioctl command, FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO, and a fb_var_screeninfo struct.
> >
> > The fb_var_screeninfo struct has a parameter nonstd that sets the color
> > properties of the buffer (e.g. RGB 565, RGB 24U, YUV 422, etc).
> >
> > The acceptable values for nonstd are defined in the omapfb.h file, but
> they
> > appear to be incorrect - at least they don't seem to set the parameters
> of
> > the buffer the way one would expect. For example, using
> OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB565
> > appears to give me a buffer with parameters that look
> > like OMAPFB_COLOR_RGB24U.
> >
> > Just looking for a good person to contact to fix this. Thanks.
>
> If you have the Git repository run `git log drivers/video/omap/omapfb.h`
> [1] or `git blame drivers/video/omap/omapfb.h` to see who is the author
> or committer.
>
> In `MAINTAINERS` you will also find the appropriate people to contact
> [2].
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1]
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/video/omap/omapfb.h;h=af3c9e571ec371e67d9d57a52cbbe99c59b7b6e5;hb=HEAD
> [2]
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;h=1a1c27b9c557b2e07af18cb9b8c4e97c53c95c86;hb=HEAD
>
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