[aandrejevic] 72607: [VGADDI] Explain how VGA write mode 2 works. No code changes! CORE-8164

Author: aandrejevic
Date: Wed Sep  7 14:38:58 2016
New Revision: 72607

URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=72607&view=rev
Log:
[VGADDI]
Explain how VGA write mode 2 works. No code changes!
CORE-8164


Modified:
    trunk/reactos/win32ss/drivers/displays/vga/vgavideo/vgavideo.c

Modified: trunk/reactos/win32ss/drivers/displays/vga/vgavideo/vgavideo.c
URL:
http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/win32ss/drivers/displays/v…
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--- trunk/reactos/win32ss/drivers/displays/vga/vgavideo/vgavideo.c	[iso-8859-1]
(original)
+++ trunk/reactos/win32ss/drivers/displays/vga/vgavideo/vgavideo.c	[iso-8859-1] Wed Sep  7
14:38:58 2016
@@ -681,6 +681,19 @@
             i += 8, off++;
         while (i < w)
         {
+            /*
+             * In write mode 2, the incoming data is 4-bit and represents the
+             * value of entire bytes on each of the 4 memory planes. First, VGA
+             * performs a logical operation on these bytes and the value of the
+             * latch register, but in this case there is none. Then, only the
+             * bits that are set in the bit mask are used from the resulting
+             * bytes, and the other bits are taken from the latch register.
+             *
+             * The latch register always contains the value previously read from
+             * VGA memory, and therefore, we must first read from vp[off] to
+             * load the latch register, and then write bp[i] to vp[off], which
+             * will be converted to 4 bytes of VGA memory as described.
+             */
             dummy = vp[off];
             dummy = bp[i];
             vp[off] = dummy;