[PATCH] Remove 24bpp support

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Nov 12 10:05:22 PST 2010


On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:54 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.

The bugs I've seen seem like the kind of thing that can't ever have
worked (24bpp surfaces turning into a8r8g8b8 pictures, that kind of
thing).  I can dig up bz references if you like.



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