Chris: Looking at the associated bug in bugzilla.freedesktop.org, I notice that you did not update the bug report with the latest patch. Please provide the maintainers with the latest patch and explain why these changes are needed to them also.
http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945 This patch has not gone upstream because the maintainer doesn't believe this patch is well written. Perhaps some of the work you've done will help in that area. Or perhaps if more work is needed, we could assist more with this? Brian > The 8-bit graphical card support is required by Solaris. the original > cairo-02-8bit-support patch only considered the case while the 8 bit > color represented as index color (say Static color or Psedueo Color), > but there is > case while the 8bit color are in DirectColor (or say TrueColor). The > lack of process of this case cause the core dump in some case e.g bug > 6555333. > > I modified the patch to add the support of 8bit Truecolor/Directcolor > case. we do linear mapping from a 8bit color image ( 2bit blue, 3bit > green and 3bit red) to 24 bit image, which cairo can process. After > cairo finish the proces, we inverse the linear transformation to form 8 > bit color image to XPutImage. > > Chris >
