Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:19:13 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Radeon frame buffer driver | From | Peter Horton <> |
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:57:31AM +0100, benh@kernel.crashing.org wrote: > > Fine, though I noticed the get_cmap_len got changed to > + return var->bits_per_pixel == 8 ? 256 : 16; >
The colour map is only used by the kernel and the kernel only uses 16 entries so there isn't any reason to waste memory by making it any larger. I checked a few other drivers and they do the same (aty128fb for one).
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