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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Modifying xenfb colour depth from Android domU
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:15:26 +0100
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On 28/08/14 10:21, Gareth Stockwell wrote:
> I'm facing some problems getting xenfb to work with an Android domU, on
> ARM.
> 
> The issue is that the framebuffer is created with a depth of 32bpp,
> while the Android guest is rendering RGB565.
> 
> I tried to fix this by using the fbdev API to request a change of pixel
> format, during the Android startup:

I'm not very familiar with the xenfb driver but it looks like it would
all just work provided you have a backend that supports feature-resize.

What backend are you using?

David