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.
