[PATCH] video: mxsfb: Fix colors display on lower color depth
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Thu Apr 18 10:00:27 EDT 2013
Dear Maxime Ripard,
> The current code always registers as a 32 bits display, and uses the
> hardware to drop the MSB of each color to abjust to the interface width
> used by the panel.
>
> This results on 18 bits (and probably 16 bits display as well) in colors
> being displayed poorly, because the MSB are obviously the most important
> bits for each color definition.
>
> The default controller behaviour when using an interface width smaller
> than the color depth is to drop the LSBs of each color, which makes more
> sense because you lose the least important part of the color definition.
>
> So, to fix the colors display, just get back to the default controller
> behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
Isn't this what M28EVK is doing already? This was last tested on 3.9-rc3 I
think:
bits-per-pixel = <16>;
bus-width = <18>;
But it's also true we have all 24 data lines routed to the LCD.
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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