Bug#825840: Fwd: [powerpc] offb: red / blue color inversion
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From: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [powerpc] offb: red / blue color inversion
Geert,
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
>> I am trying to fix an issue with color inversion in the current offb.c
>> implementation. I am using a Mac Mini G4 (PPC) with:
>>
>> [ 0.844144] fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on
>> /pci@f0000000/ATY,RockHopper2Parent@10/ATY,RockHopper2_A@0
>>
>> reported as [*]. I have tried looking at the upstream code source, and
>> it appears that my configuration falls into the 'cmap_simple'. But
>> other than that I failed to understand what could be wrong (palette
>> would be setup backward).
>
> The palette code for cmap_simple writes the color components in the
> order RGB, while your card seems to need BGR.
>
> Hence either the cmap_addr/cmap_data registers are wrong, or
> you have to add a cmap_inverted type that writes in the BGR order.
>
> For both cases, you have to add a check to offb_init_palette_hacks() in
> drivers/video/fbdev/offb.c.
Well I tried a (very naive) patch as follow:
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/offb.c 2016-09-13 15:33:41.043843352 +0200
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/offb.c 2016-08-20 18:11:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@
switch (par->cmap_type) {
case cmap_simple:
writeb(regno, par->cmap_adr);
- writeb(blue, par->cmap_data);
- writeb(green, par->cmap_data);
writeb(red, par->cmap_data);
+ writeb(green, par->cmap_data);
+ writeb(blue, par->cmap_data);
break;
case cmap_M3A:
/* Clear PALETTE_ACCESS_CNTL in DAC_CNTL */
However it does not seems to fix the Red / Blue color inversion I am seeing.
Could you please be a little more verbose in the way I need to reorder
color component from RGB to BGR ?
Thanks again
-M
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