>>> Just curious of the status of support for S24.
>> I think it's probably not quite what you mean, but I have a 5 with
>> an S24 in it and making it all Work Right is one of the things on my
>> things-to-do list.
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2002/03/19/0003.html

> Are you involved with this effort, or are we talking about 2 separate
> things?

Closer to the latter.  I intend to do a significantly more thorough
job, which is in large part why it's taking so much longer.  In
particular, I want to handle console output righter, and I want to
build an X server that presents both the usual suite of 8bpp visuals
and the 24bpp visuals (DirectColor and TrueColor; I'm not sure whether
to make TrueColor use the gamma-corrected form and ignore the
non-gamma-corrected, the other way around, present two TrueColor
visuals with no obvious way for userland to tell the difference, make
one of them a StaticColor visual, or what).

Unfortunately the S24 is depressingly stupid.  It's smarter than a dumb
memory-mapped framebuffer, but not as much smarter as I'd wish.

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