Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] drm: Add support for low-color frame buffer formats
From: Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
Date: 2022-07-11 09:21:54
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Hi Thomas, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:50:00AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi Am 09.07.22 um 15:38 schrieb Sam Ravnborg:quoted
Hi Geert, On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 08:20:45PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:quoted
Hi all, A long outstanding issue with the DRM subsystem has been the lack of support for low-color displays, as used typically on older desktop systems, and on small embedded displays.For the patchset Acked-by: Thomas Zimemrmann <tzimmermann@suse.de>quoted
IT is super to have this addressed - thanks!quoted
This patch series adds support for color-indexed frame buffer formats with 2, 4, and 16 colors. It has been tested on ARAnyM using a work-in-progress Atari DRM driver supporting 2, 4, 16, 256, and 65536 colors, with text console operation, fbtest, and modetest. Overview: - Patch 1 introduces a helper, to be used by later patches in the series, - Patch 2 introduces a flag to indicate color-indexed formats, - Patches 3 and 4 correct calculations of bits per pixel for sub-byte pixel formats, - Patches 5 and 6 introduce the new C[124] formats, - Patch 7 fixes an untested code path, - Patch 8 documents the use of "red" for light-on-dark displays, - Patches 9 and 10 add more fourcc codes for light-on-dark and dark-on-light frame buffer formats, which may be useful for e.g. the ssd130x and repaper drivers.Applied all patches to drm-misc (drm-misc-next), including the last two RFC patches as we then have the formats ready when a user pops up.I know it's v3 already, but give people at least a workday for reviewing before merging patches of this size and impact. Friday-evening patches are not supposed to be merged on Saturday afternoons.
Sorry for being too enthusiastic on this one. Will wait a bit more in the future for these kind of patches. Sam