[PATCH] Add 24-bit color support to exaGetPixmapFirstPixel

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 23:54 +0100, Kevin Brace wrote:

> The rendering is fine for the login screen as far as I am concerned,
> so I would imagine that EXA can theoretically support 24 bpp, but no
> one really tried since by the time EXA was developed, every new
> graphics had 32 bpp support, and developers "forgot" to support 24
> bpp only graphics cards.

exa definitely had intended to support 24bpp at one point. I deleted
the code for it in 1.20 though:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/0803918e64262482035f042e5e1f2a571d3dea1b

> I do not see any particular harm backporting that one line inside the
> still supported X Servers. (1.16 through 1.20)

The change would do nothing for 1.20, and I'm not about to do any more
pre-1.20 releases. If someone else wants to, be my guest.

- ajax