27 May
2022
27 May
'22
12:17 a.m.
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.