On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:30, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Jonathan Thambidurai wrote:
> >     I was looking at the source for the radeon driver and noticed
that the
> > depth buffer is always set to 32 bits if a 24 bpp color depth is
> > selected.  Is this a hardware limitation, or might it be possible to
> > change it to 16 bpp?
> 
> It's possible to do this with a small amount of coding.  That coding
would 
> touch several parts of the tree, but not actually be too difficult,
except in 
> terms of getting to know the very large source tree we have to deal
with.
> 
> Try downloading the CVS & see if you still want to play.
> 
> Keith
> 

I just downloaded the DRI CVS trunk (I was looking at the texmem branch
before; not sure if there are significant relevant differences here) and
am willing to do the coding.

--Jonathan Thambidurai



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