Monochrome framebuffer driver

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Oct 29 14:02:31 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:56 +0100, 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. 
> 
> What's the right way of implementing a monochrome framebuffer driver? Using 
> 8bpp with fbdev and do the mapping in the kernel, or write an x driver?

fbScreenInit(bpp = 1)

- ajax
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