On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Bruno Prémont <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
