Subject: Re: Displaymode number units
To: None <amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ezra Story <ezy@panix.com>
List: amiga
Date: 09/11/1995 10:56:15
> 
> Which is a bad thing, IMHO... The grf_XX drivers should do all necessary
> multiplications/divisions to normalize the units to pixels/lines (so
> that an HW independent videomode editor might be written). As an
> intermediate measure, I put a multiplication/division by two into the
> grf_ul driver (whose hardware uses a factor of 16).


> 
> Opinions?

Agreed (and I wrote the dynamic mode loader :-P).  I was thinking of adding
the SETMON ioctl to all the drivers which dont have it, and in the process
changing over to pixel units.  

Ezra