On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> The attached patch fixes that bug and enables 8--12 bit wide fonts, thus
> disabling the "No support ..." messages. I haven't found an indication that
Does it work now for fonts with width 16? I'd expect so.
BTW, instead of using #ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN and swapping explicitly, it's
better to use the cpu_to_be* macros.
> there are any Voodoo3/Banshee cards for big endian machines. The bugfix implies
> that they never could have worked. (But if they have indeed, they would be
> broken after applying the patch. Could someone comment on this, please?)
Yes, people are using Voodoo3 boards on PPC. But they require(d) some patches,
IIRC.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn 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 Torvalds
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