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Documentation / fb / cmap_xfbdev.txt


Based on kernel version 4.16.1. Page generated on 2018-04-09 11:53 EST.

1	Understanding fbdev's cmap
2	--------------------------
3	
4	These notes explain how X's dix layer uses fbdev's cmap structures.
5	
6	*. example of relevant structures in fbdev as used for a 3-bit grayscale cmap
7	struct fb_var_screeninfo {
8	        .bits_per_pixel = 8,
9	        .grayscale      = 1,
10	        .red =          { 4, 3, 0 },
11	        .green =        { 0, 0, 0 },
12	        .blue =         { 0, 0, 0 },
13	}
14	struct fb_fix_screeninfo {
15	        .visual =       FB_VISUAL_STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR,
16	}
17	for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
18		info->cmap.red[i] = (((2*i)+1)*(0xFFFF))/16;
19	memcpy(info->cmap.green, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8);
20	memcpy(info->cmap.blue, info->cmap.red, sizeof(u16)*8);
21	
22	*. X11 apps do something like the following when trying to use grayscale.
23	for (i=0; i < 8; i++) {
24		char colorspec[64];
25		memset(colorspec,0,64);
26		sprintf(colorspec, "rgb:%x/%x/%x", i*36,i*36,i*36);
27		if (!XParseColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, colorspec, &wantedColor))
28			printf("Can't get color %s\n",colorspec);
29		XAllocColor(outputDisplay, testColormap, &wantedColor);
30		grays[i] = wantedColor;
31	}
32	There's also named equivalents like gray1..x provided you have an rgb.txt.
33	
34	Somewhere in X's callchain, this results in a call to X code that handles the
35	colormap. For example, Xfbdev hits the following:
36	
37	xc-011010/programs/Xserver/dix/colormap.c:
38	
39	FindBestPixel(pentFirst, size, prgb, channel)
40	
41	dr = (long) pent->co.local.red - prgb->red;
42	dg = (long) pent->co.local.green - prgb->green;
43	db = (long) pent->co.local.blue - prgb->blue;
44	sq = dr * dr;
45	UnsignedToBigNum (sq, &sum);
46	BigNumAdd (&sum, &temp, &sum);
47	
48	co.local.red are entries that were brought in through FBIOGETCMAP which come
49	directly from the info->cmap.red that was listed above. The prgb is the rgb
50	that the app wants to match to. The above code is doing what looks like a least
51	squares matching function. That's why the cmap entries can't be set to the left
52	hand side boundaries of a color range.
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