Re: [Qemu-devel] Updated BGR vs. RGB vga patch...

[Leonardo E. Reiter]

Okay, that makes perfect sense.  Let me see if I can figure out how to 
get SDL to report the ordering, and I'll try to roll it out that way.

thanks for clarifying,

- Leo Reiter

Paul Brook wrote:
> > Unfortunately X11 will not allow you to force a certain color order in
> > 24-bit mode.  You can tell it to force byte-order but this only affects
> > 16-bit blits - it's ignored for 24-bit since the individual components
> > of the 24-bit blits, even if packed into 32-bits, are still 8-bits long.
> >  That's what the color masks are for.  There is no efficient way to do
> > this at the server level that I can see.  If you find a better way
> > (within the current scope of the VGA architecture), I'd be glad to try
> > to implement it.  I was just sharing something that was useful to me.
>
>
> It should be possible to select between different 24-bit packings the same way 
> different bit depths are handled.
>
> Paul

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