On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 09:27 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:

to build without PCI to see what happens.

If you bring any of the "heuristic" and palette support code in, you
need PCI. I don't see any reason to take it out.

Those old Macs use BootX, right? BootX is not supported ATM, as I don't 
have the HW to test. Is there an emulator for it?

It isn't ? When did it break ? :-)

If anyone what's to make patches for BootX, I'd be happy to add them. 
The offb driver also supports a number of special cases for palette 
handling. That might be necessary for ofdrm as well.

The palette handling is useful when using a real Open Firmware
implementation which tends to boot in 8-bit mode, so without palette
things will look ... bad.

It's not necessary when using 16/32 bpp framebuffers which is typically
... what BootX provides :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

Best regards
Thomas

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Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                         Geert

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