[PATCH xserver 05/11] vfb: Remove -pixdepths option

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 19:00:00 UTC 2016


On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 09:09 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> > Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > This really isn't especially useful, and we'd rather not be in the
> > business of supporting arbitrary pixel formats.
> 
> I recall playing with this when I heard of a strange piece of hardware
> DEC was planning on making (depth 1, 8 bpp), but it wasn't all that
> useful.
> 
> However, I'd say it remains useful for testing software rendering code
> for depth 12, 15 and 30. Those are no longer included in the default set
> of depths provided by vfb, leaving us no easy way to validate them.

I'm thinking we could just make the pixmap format list constant: depths
1, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 18, 24, 30, 32. (Yes 18, apparently r6g6b6 is a
thing.) Why leave anything out, after all.

- ajax


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