On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org> wrote: > >> > ? ? ? ?Second question I have is how are monochrome cursor images >> > handled with KMS. Yes we need to support CLE266 which is used in a lot >> > of POS devices. That chipset only supports monochrome cursors. >> >> As far as I know, the KMS cursor API doesn't really care what type of >> cursors are supported. ?That's a client driver (ddx, etc.) >> implementation detail. ?The cursor interface just basically has on, >> off, and position. The client driver (ddx, etc.) can choose to upload >> a ARGB or mono image. ?We should probably add some sort of flag to KMS >> to ask the driver what types of cursors they support so this could be >> supported in a generic way. > > That is the bit missing. I seen recently you had a patch for passing info > to userland. It would be nice to add what color depths the cursor > supports.
I think Dave proposed something like that for the generic KMS ddx. Alex
