Subject: Re: XFree's sunffb
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/17/2005 20:45:35
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Hello,

> not supporting 8 bit seems like a regression that neeeds to be fixed.

Not easy to do - right now it's pretty much either XRender or 8 and 24
bit visuals at the same time. That's why I asked if the current driver
should be preserved. In this case we'd have two FFB drivers, one with
hardware XRender but 32bit only and one with 8 and 24 bit visuals but no
XRender.
Whoever wrote XRender ( and much of XFree86 ) clearly had only PCish
graphics boards in mind which only offer one colour depth at a time.

have fun
Michael

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