Re: mono, gray and index configs

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Antonino Daplas wrote:
>>>> (Depending on how correct I am with the interpretation, there might be
>>>> some bugs in fbdev on how it determines the color depth. No one is
>>>> complaining yet though, so greater than 1-bit monochrome is probably
>>>> rare if not nonexistent.)
>>> There definitely are bugs w.r.t. this, especially in the 2.4 logo code ;-)
>>>
>> Yes, I would agree.  Do you know of any outstanding bugs on color handling
>> in 2.6 code, especially for hardware with bitdepths < 8? I would like to
>> fix them.
> 
> Unfortunately not. Due to personel reasons, I temporarily don't have much
> time left to do real coding.
> 
> You can always try vgafb's 16 color mode and check for yourself.

That's okay. I'm actually emulating these low bit depths using pseudocolor whenever
I look for bugs for depths < 4 (ie monochrome text attributes). I haven't found
any yet except for the greater than 1-bit monochrome color handling which I've
already fixed in my tree.

Tony


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