On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 09:27 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
to build without PCI to see what happens.
If you bring any of the "heuristic" and palette support code in, you need PCI. I don't see any reason to take it out.
Those old Macs use BootX, right? BootX is not supported ATM, as I don't have the HW to test. Is there an emulator for it?
It isn't ? When did it break ? :-)
If anyone what's to make patches for BootX, I'd be happy to add them. The offb driver also supports a number of special cases for palette handling. That might be necessary for ofdrm as well.
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 :-)
Cheers, Ben.
Best regards Thomas
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