Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] fb accel capabilities (resend against 2.6.7-rc2)

From: David Eger
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 20:28:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:46:08PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> David Eger wrote:
> >
> >On the down side, panning makes screen corruption for me... time to
> >investigate to see if fbcon or radeonfb is to blame... perhaps panning
> >is just ncompatible with accel engine at all in radeon...
>
> What sort of "screen corruption" do you get?

I tracked it down in the radeon accel code -- the fix wasn't hard.
by default, radeon allocs a virtual screen the same size as the screen,
so I just hadn't encountered the bug yet ;-)

Patches implementing Antonino's pseudocode and fixing radeonfb are coming
momentarily. Thank you Antonino.

-dte
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