Bug#487257: linux-image-2.6.24: SGI GBE framebuffer colormap broken

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz> [2008-06-20 17:23]:
> > The console and console logo works OK but X11 and splashy test has wrong
> > colors.
> > 
> > I get many
> > 
> > gbefb: cmap FIFO timeout

I could reproduce it now by using 8 bit color mode. But the etch kernel
"(Linux ip32 2.6.18-6-r5k-ip32 #1 Sat Jun 7 01:05:44 BST 2008 mips64"
also produces FIFO timeouts, but it gets the colors correct. The diff
between 2.6.18 and current git doesn't show any critical changes for
gbefb.c ...

Thomas

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