[Bug 1823] Add new framebuffer ioctl to switch video modes

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Tue Jul 12 14:49:04 UTC 2011


https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1823

--- Comment #24 from Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> 2011-07-12 09:49:03 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> I don't see any ioctl's in linux/fb.h to set anything except the cursor.

There are some "PUT", e.g. to change the color map.

> Under
> Linux, the driver author "knows better" than the user, thus no control over
> details like this.  Ultimately, it can't be used as a model for RTEMS because
> we assume the user is smart and may have a good reason to switch some settings.

Maybe, but the RTEMS user is quite alone.

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