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

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

>> [...cgfour...]
> [...].  When we get to running X,

"When"?  I was using X on a cg4 back in the '80s.  Match SunOS's mmap
offsets and I see no reason it wouldn't Just Work now.

> I think that we need to make sure that we either: [...]

Maybe for text console.  But for X, I'd prefer to use the enable plane
to support both 8bpp and 1bpp at the same time.  It's not difficult; I
did something very similar for the cg14 (except there it's 24bpp and
8bpp rather than 8bpp and 1bpp).

Also, my experience is that 1bpp PseudoColor does not work well,
largely because few clients are prepared to handle it.  Perhaps that's
improved since the '80s, but perhaps not, too; my experience is that
over the decades clients have become _less_, not _more_, ready to
handle the full spectrum of visuals.  I've seen too many that break on
anything but 24bpp BGR TrueColor (or 24bpp RGB TrueColor, presumably
depending on which the author's hardware provided).

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