Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] bits_per_pixel query

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 00:39, Linux PPC wrote: 

> 
> If the display is 8 bit, then it would require only
> a byte to represent the value of the pixel. If it were 24 bit, 
> then it would require 3 bytes, and so
> on. Is that right? What would happen, to the size required for the 
> buffer, if the display
> requires, say 12 bits per pixel, or 18 bits?
Just pad the pitch/line_length/stride of the buffer to the next byte
alignment your hardware is capable of.  It is acceptable to have excess
bits/bytes which theoretically your hardware will ignore. Then the
framebuffer size is line_length*yres_virtual. 
> 
> So, if I were to set all the bytes after screen_base
> uptil screen_base + (hres*vres*bits_per_pixel/8) to
> zeros, then I would get a black screen. Is that right?
> 
For static pseudocolor and truecolor, that is true, since 0 is hardwired
to black.  For pseudocolor and directcolor, that depends on how the
DAC/palette is loaded. In most cases, it will produce a black screen. 

Tony