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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> BTW, good to see you still have a working TGA. My PPC and Alpha gear
>> died a decade ago.
>
> With the patches that I sent, I can switch it to 1920x1080 and let it
> drive my monitor in native resolution. I was wondering how such an old
> card can do that :)

Don't underestimate the TGA.

Furthermore, 1920x1080 TFT only needs a 148 MHz dot clock.
CRTs needed higher dot clocks (at lower resolutions) to avoid flicker.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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