On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:54:46PM -0400, Dominic Duval wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently trying to configure X for a frame buffer device which can
> _only_ be accessed in 16-bit. It's a long story, but accessing the frame
> buffer memory in 8 or 32 bits is just not possible with our current
> hardware.
> 
> The way I understand it, X mmaps() the /dev/fb0 device and makes 32-bit
> write accesses to this memory area afterwards. Before I jump in the code
> and try to modify every single write access to the memory mapped area, I'd like
> to know if there's an easy way to do this and/or if something similar has
> been done before.
> 
> I haven't spent a lot of time inspecting the code, so any pointer as to
> where I might need to focus my efforts will be well appreciated.

Use a shadow framebuffer and you only have to implement one function, which
is how the framebuffer is refreshed.

Alan.
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