Re: [Qemu-devel] Why QEMU ARM Versatile doesn't support RGB?

[Wenqi Chen]

take your time machine back to oct 2006 ..

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg81440.html




On 27/02/2008, Song Yuan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to boot linux with file system of DirectFB/Gtk+ stack from
>  QEMU ARM Versatile emulation. Then the emulation's framebuffer
>  supports BGR16, though the original PL110 graphics controller support
>  both BGR and RGB (as mentioned by Wenqi Chen in mail thread as
>  follows). But DirectFB does not support BGR16, as it does for RGB16.
>
>  I looked into QEMU's source code, it seems that it won't make things
>  messy if I just patch it to RGB in QEMU. I would like to know whether
>  there are any special considerations that only BRG is supported at the
>  first place. Thanks!
>
>  The mail thread in DirectFB regarding this is here:
>  http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2008-February/003985.html
>
>  PS: to Paul Brook: it seems IRC and other ports are blocked by my
>  proxy server that I couldn't get connected...
>
>
>  Song Yuan
>
>
>


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WC