[PATCH] Remove 24bpp support

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Nov 11 14:54:29 PST 2010


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:38:57 -0500, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> The 24bpp code is very poorly tested, and virtually no modern hardware
> implements it.  If you need a 24bpp framebuffer, use shadowfb and convert
> in the upload hook.

I tested the 24bpp fb code when I wrote it; I guess it has rotted away
though? There is still a huge pile of hardware which supports 24bpp, and
some which doesn't support 32bpp well (older mga). Seems fairly harsh to
remove this from the server.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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