quoted

Note, the r200 supports a lot more buffer formats, but these are the
only ones valid for scanout.

What does scanout mean?

the sending of a graphics buffer from VRAM to monitor via a CRTC... CRTCs
only support certain formats...

Dave.

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG



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