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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-05-20 09:02:28 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-05-20 09:02:28 +0200
commit521c180874dae86f675d23c4eade4dba8b1f2cc8 (patch)
tree7509303da3a9a1b40a26f6811f321c89cd31737b /drivers/video/vfb.c
parentfutex: remove the wait queue (diff)
parentfutex: setup writeable mapping for futex ops which modify user space data (diff)
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Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/futexes
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+ to get the latest upstream fixes. Conflicts: kernel/futex.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/vfb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/vfb.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
index cc919ae46571..050d432c7d95 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
@@ -318,13 +318,16 @@ static int vfb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green, u_int blue,
* {hardwarespecific} contains width of RAMDAC
* cmap[X] is programmed to (X << red.offset) | (X << green.offset) | (X << blue.offset)
* RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
- *
+ *
* Pseudocolor:
- * uses offset = 0 && length = RAMDAC register width.
- * var->{color}.offset is 0
- * var->{color}.length contains widht of DAC
+ * var->{color}.offset is 0 unless the palette index takes less than
+ * bits_per_pixel bits and is stored in the upper
+ * bits of the pixel value
+ * var->{color}.length is set so that 1 << length is the number of available
+ * palette entries
* cmap is not used
* RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
+ *
* Truecolor:
* does not use DAC. Usually 3 are present.
* var->{color}.offset contains start of bitfield