Monochrome framebuffer driver
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Oct 29 13:58:14 PDT 2009
Markus Brunner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from the announce mail of xorg-server 1.5.99.1:
>
> Death to mfb.
> ... and stay dead.
>
> This is a clear statement, but I'm a bit surprised X won't support a whole
> class of devices, which are still in use in embedded devices.
My understanding is that mfb/cfb/cfb4/cfb24/cfb32 were depth specific libraries
replaced by the depth-independent fb. One common implementation instead of a
different one for each bit depth.
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