On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 17:59, Laurent Mohin wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a PowerPC (big endian) processor but my graphic controller 
> (Silicon Motion SMI712) insists on treating its frame buffer as little 
> endian.
> Working at 16bpp, byte swapping led me to incorrect colors on my display.
> 
> Is there an option or a patch available in the Xserver to get rid of this 
> issue?

You could use a shadow framebuffer with a dedicated update function, but
you'd lose any hardware acceleration.

Doesn't the chip provide means to swap bytes on the framebuffer aperture
though? Most non-ancient chips do.


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Earthling Michel D�nzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer

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