Re: port-macppc/48600

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/48600; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-macppc/48600
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:43:41 -0400

 More than 8 bit depth would be useful for X, there are a few drivers
 which run wsdisplay in 8 bit but switch to 16 or 32 bit for X ( by
 catching ioctl(WSDISPLAYIO_SMODE) ), for example igsfb, crmfb,
 cgfourteen, omapfb, voyagerfb etc. - mostly hardware that does or did
 not have native Xorg drivers.
 Sure, X on a dumb framebuffer isn't exactly fast but in my opinionat
 least, there are enough situations where slow X beats no X.