Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2011-04-30

Re: fbdev test application

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2011-04-30 18:30:26

Hi Laurent,

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 19:31, Laurent Pinchart
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Saturday 30 April 2011 19:13:47 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
quoted
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 16:43, Laurent Pinchart
quoted
I've developed a small fbdev application for internal test purpose that
might be useful to other developers, so I'm releasing it under the GPL.
Have you ever looked at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geert/fbtest.git,
which is a git clone of CVS module FBdev/utlilities/fbtest of project
linux-fbdev on sf.net?
I've seen the project, but my fbdev test application serves slightly different
purposes, as I wanted to control FB devices from the command line, not run a
Ah, so it's more like fbset.
test suite. It was also a way for me to learn the FB API, no existing
application could have properly helped me there :-)
IC...
I see that fbtest.git hasn't been updated for quite some time. Do you think we
should try to merge the projects ?
Perhaps, if you're willing to spend time on it. I don't think I can
work much on it
currently.

One big advantage of fbtest is that it knows how to draw on whatever
frame buffer
format and visual, while most fbdev apps support cfb8 in pseudocolor
and cfb32 in
truecolor only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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