[PATCH 2/2] drm/tiny: Add ofdrm for Open Firmware framebuffers

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 18:45 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> > The palette handling is useful when using a real Open Firmware
> > implementation which tends to boot in 8-bit mode, so without palette
> > things will look ... bad.
> > 
> > It's not necessary when using 16/32 bpp framebuffers which is typically
> > ... what BootX provides :-)
> 
> Maybe the odd color formats can be tested via qemu.
> 
> I don't mind adding DRM support for BootX displays, but getting the 
> necessary test HW with a suitable Linux seems to be laborious. Would a 
> G4 Powerbook work?

My point was that it's the non-BootX case that cares about the palette
hacks :-)

Cheers,
Ben.