Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Type confusion in fbcon

[James Simmons]

> I'm in the midst of porting sa1100fb over to the new fb API, and I stumbled
> across an apparant confusion over the type of fb_info->pseudo_palette.
> 
> Some code appears to think its an unsigned long, others think its u32.
> This doesn't make much difference when sizeof(unsigned long) == sizeof(u32)
> but this isn't always the case (eg, 64-bit architectures).

It show be u32 instead of unsinged long in color_imageblit. Thanks. Fixed.
 
> I'll get back to bashing the sa1100fb driver to work out why fbcon is
> producing a _completely_ blank display, despite characters being written
> to it.

Did you figure out what was wrong?