Re: [PATCH 3/10] framebuffer: fix cfb_copyarea

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The cfb_copyarea code was very buggy and it looks like it was written
> > and never tried with non-8-pixel font.
> 
> My memory may suffer from bitrot, but I think I tested it with the Sun
> 12x22 font. That was on big endian (PPC), though.

The bug happens when the horizontal font size in bytes is not divisible by 
(sizeof(long) / 2).

Mikulas

> BTW, good to see you still have a working TGA. My PPC and Alpha gear
> died a decade ago.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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