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

[Mark Kettenis]

> From: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 12:25:46 -0800
> 
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> > 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?

Ah right.  If the shadow module in the X server would do the
conversion, things would just work.  The current code doesn't support
that though isn't it?