s3c2410fb: BSWP vs HWSWP and colormap handling

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 23:39, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:05:48AM +0100, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> I think the BSWP/HWSWP needs to be part of the mode setting/switching
> code inside s3c2410_fb.  Statically, at least for all little-endian
> devices.  This should not be different at all between different
> machines/boards, since the memory controller and framebuffer controller
> is always the same in any s3c2410 device...

Makes sense, but between the lines I mean to read that Ben has some
more ideas about improving this driver. I let him state this ideas
before start hacking on this.

> > I can't found a fb_alloc_cmap inside the s3c2410fb driver, did I miss
> > something here?
> 
> No, I think s3c2410_fb just generally does not [yet] support any
> non-16bit mode due to the complete lack of colormap handling.

So we just need to implement it. ;)

I can look into this.

regards
Stefan Schmidt
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