Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH]: image.depth fix to accomodate monochrome cards

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, James Simmons wrote:
> > I think we still have several corner cases, such as TRUECOLOR with bpp
> > <= 8, I'm not sure if that works.
> 
> The matorx millenium has such a mode. So such things do exist.
>  
> > -	if (image->depth == 1) {
> > +	if (image->depth == 0) {
> 
> P.S
> 
>    I'm just not to crazy about the depth equal zero thing. I just pitcure 
> developers having a hard time with it.

Monochrome color expansion just works differently: it expands the zeroes and
ones in a bitmap based on fg_color and bg_color, while image drawing draws an
image containing colormap indices to the frame buffer.

Do you have a better suggestion?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

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