patch to get latest XFree 4.0 snapshot (xf3918) to work on pp cwith r128

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kostas Gewrgiou wrote:
> > >   Yeap its the same in the x86 side as well, atyfb doesn't support 565
> > > either i imagine you remember the jdk problems that we had in xf68_fbdev
> > > because of this.
> >
> > But since Mach64 CT/VT/GT do support RGB 565, adding support for it isn't that
> > difficult. Patches?
>
>  Unfortunately i don't have a mach64 card anymore, i'll take a look in the
> xserver side though, right now it looks only in var.bits_per_pixel but this

The X server should be OK, it's atyfb that needs to be patched.

> is set to 16 even in the 555 case so we need to check green.length as well
> right ?

Yes. RGB555 and RGB565 all use 16 bit pixels.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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