FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: overlay in CMAP8 - change needed

["Rudolf" <drivers.be-hold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys!

Please tell me what the real status is on this then!
-from the driver's  viewpoint, it should just be sent the correct 
colorindex along with the magic color! There's no denying that.
-if however, from R5, Dano, Zeta, and Haiku app_server viewpoint, it's 
_quaranteed_ that the correct index is _always_ 255, then you are (upto 
now, implicitly) stating that all driver authors that need to feed the 
colorindex into the hardware for B_CMAP8, should _in fact_ hardcode it 
to be index 255.

---please confirm this.. ---

Then, if you indeed confirm this, and you in fact already did (read 
your mail below), please fix Haiku's app_server to send the color 
that's sitting in index 255 over to the driver as magic color! There 
couldn't be a simpler fix for overlay in CMAP8 for numerous drivers.... 

Thanks!

Rudolf.





> Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > in the VIA driver I let the overlay
> > > code search for the index in the palette that matches the send 
> > > magic
> > > color. Unfortunately there are two entries that match that color, 
> > > and
> > > only one is the correct one.
> > > If there would be just one matching entry, this would work OK 
> > > (but
> > > still is ugly I think).
> > I don't get it. The magic "white" entry is always 255. It is never 
> > going to 
> > change, or any existing B_CMAP8 bitmaps would break. Or could a 
> > different 
> > overlay key color be used in B_CMAP8 screen mode?
> 
> Theoretically, yes. But I think we should just stick with it, anyway 
> :)
> 
> Bye,
>    Axel.
> 
> 
>