On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 11:28:11PM +0100, niederp@physik.uni-kl.de wrote:

From: Thomas Niederprüm <redacted>

This patch adds a module parameter 'bitsperpixel' to adjust the colordepth
of the framebuffer. All values >1 will result in memory map of the requested
color depth. However only the MSB of each pixel will be sent to the device.
The framebuffer identifies itself as a grayscale display with the specified
depth.

I'm not sure this is the right thing to do.

The bits per pixel for this display is rightfully defined, used and
reported to the userspace, why would you want to change that?

Maxime

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