From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:40:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] DRM: Armada: Add support for ARGB 32x64 or 64x32
 hardware cursors
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:09:56 +0100
> Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds ARGB hardware cursor support to the DRM driver for the
> > Marvell Armada SoCs.  ARGB cursors are supported at either 32x64 or
> > 64x32 resolutions.
> 	[snip]
> 
> I don't see the interest of such cursors. Actually, most often, the
> cursors are 64x64 and 'A' is either 0 or 0xff. As the Armada 510
> supports 64x64 cursors with transparency, it would be more useful to
> implement these ones...

Sorry, you're completely wrong there.  Xorg uses an alphablended cursor.
This patch is a result of trialling each of the Armada's cursor options
and this is the only one which results in a reasonable looking cursor.

From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] DRM: Armada: Add support for ARGB 32x64 or 64x32
 hardware cursors
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:40:08 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:09:56 +0100
> Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds ARGB hardware cursor support to the DRM driver for the
> > Marvell Armada SoCs.  ARGB cursors are supported at either 32x64 or
> > 64x32 resolutions.
> 	[snip]
> 
> I don't see the interest of such cursors. Actually, most often, the
> cursors are 64x64 and 'A' is either 0 or 0xff. As the Armada 510
> supports 64x64 cursors with transparency, it would be more useful to
> implement these ones...

Sorry, you're completely wrong there.  Xorg uses an alphablended cursor.
This patch is a result of trialling each of the Armada's cursor options
and this is the only one which results in a reasonable looking cursor.