Re: Panic at boot on 4/330 with cgfour and cgsix

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> AFAIK cgfour(4) is a simple 8 bpp dumb framebuffer,

Maybe that's part of the problem, then, in that cgfour(4) is supporting
only part of the hardware?  IIRC the cg4 has ten bits per pixel, eight
of them organized as a cg3-style 8bpp colour framebuffer, one as a 1bpp
framebuffer (rather like a bw2 except with a two-entry colourmap), and
the tenth bit looks from the CPU's point of view like another 1bpp
framebuffer, except instead of getting displayed directly it controls,
per-pixel, whether the 8bpp or 1bpp framebuffer gets displayed.  IIRC
the intended use was for the 1bpp framebuffer to be used for window
decorations and 1bpp applications, with the 8bpp framebuffer used for
more colour-demanding applications.  It's not that hard to handle in X;
I did something similar for the cg14, supporting 24bpp and 8bpp at the
same time....

Is wscons capable of representing such a thing?  If not, perhaps that's
part of the problem?

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