Uh, I think you accidentally sent this patch set five days early.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>wrote:
> This patch series revives some of the support for Atari and Amiga that
> existed
> in XF68_FBDev, but got lost after XFree86 3.x.
>
> Generic:
> - All non-packed frame buffer layouts use shadowfb, and fast "c2" for
> chunky-to-planar conversion.
> - As the KDrive "keyboard" driver is broken, you have to use evdev
> instead.
> - 4 bpp is of limited use with modern clients, as e.g. GdkRgb doesn't
> support
> 4 bpp color. gdkRgb does support 4 bpp grayscale, so you may want to
> force
> the visual to grayscale.
> - I haven't benchmarked it yet against XF68_FBDev 3.6, but it's unusable
> slow
> on my Amiga 4000/040, even for just moving the mouse pointer. May be
> due to
> excessive TLS syscalls with recent glibc. It is usable on ARAnyM on
> Intel
> Core 2 Quad.
>
> Status on Atari:
> - 1 bpp, 4 bpp, and 8 bpp now work (16 bpp already worked before, as
> it's a
> packed mode)
> - 2 bpp is not yet supported. It's of limited use anyway due to the low
> number of colors.
>
> Status on Amiga:
> - 1 bpp, 4 bpp, and 8 bpp now work.
> - 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 bpp are not yet supported. 5 and 6 bpp may be useful
> as
> they improve Chip RAM access for the CPU, compared to 8 bpp.
> - The keyboard map is messed up, even with
> "-keybd evdev,,device=/dev/input/event0,xkbmodel=amiga"
>
> Sample invocation:
>
> Xfbdev -keybd evdev,,device=/dev/input/event0 \
> -mouse evdev,,device=/dev/input/event1 [ -cc grayscale ]
>
> List of patches:
> [01/18] debian/rules: Enable kdrive-mouse and kdrive-evdev on Linux
> [02/18] miext/shadow/shpacked.c: Remove unused PickBit() define
> [03/18] [RFC] mi: Avoid division by zero errors in miInitializeColormap()
> [04/18] test/input: Fix double-aligned test in dix_valuator_alloc() on
> m68k
> [05/18] KDrive: Bail out if screen initialization failed
> [06/18] Xfbdev: Make char *fbdevDevicePath const
> [07/18] Xfbdev: Handle unset var.bits_per_pixel
> [08/18] Xfbdev: Add support for monochrome visuals
> [09/18] Xfbdev: Treat 1 bpp pseudocolor as monochrome
> [10/18] Shadow: Add c2p core
> [11/18] Shadow: Add support for Atari iplan2p4
> [12/18] Shadow: Add support for Atari iplan2p8
> [13/18] Shadow: Add support for Amiga afb4
> [14/18] Shadow: Add support for Amiga afb8
> [15/18] Xfbdev: Reject unsupported frame buffer types
> [16/18] Xfbdev: Force shadowfb for frame buffers with non-packed pixels
> [17/18] Xfbdev: Wire up Atari iplan2p4 and iplan2p8 support
> [18/18] Xfbdev: Wire up Amiga afb4 and afb8 support
>
> All patches are relative to Debian's xorg-server-1.12.4 package.
> However, all of them (except for the first one, which is Debian-specific)
> apply to current xorg-server.git.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> ge...@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker.
> But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like
> that.
> -- Linus
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