On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Bruno Prémont <bonb...@linux-vserver.org> wrote: >> Is this behavior intended or are we triggering a bug here (that no one >> noticed, because >> who in the world uses monochrome framebuffers these days..). I can't see any >> comments that >> monochrome consoles should not work with 1 bit per pixel. See the code below >> if you spot >> some errors (ignore some missing error handling and mediocre style for now, >> please). > > fbcon on 1bpp frambuffer worked for me with picoLCD (though I have found no > userspace
I'm not aware of 1 bpp frame buffer consoles being broken. > framebuffer application willing to operate at 1bpp). Xfbdev does. I revived support for monochrome (and Atari/Amiga-style bitplanes) last year. And of course https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geert/fbtest.git/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
