[PATCH xserver 0/5] Remove (most) 24bpp support

[Keith Packard]

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> writes:

> The KMS drivers in question are unfortunately GPL'ed, which for some
> non-Linux OSes is a bit of an issue.

Sure, so it would be nice to find a way to either work around this in
the server, or at least make the required driver patches easy to do.

> It is also unfortunate that this means you won't be able to run X
> directly on the framebuffer set up by UEFI firmware on such servers
> and virtually all virtualization solutions.

That seems like a simple matter of fixing the fb driver to handle the
32->24 shadow setup automatically?

Like I said, I'd like for us to propose reasonable migration plans that
are less than total hand waving.

-- 
-keith
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