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On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 14:37 -0700, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Sat, February 21, 2009 9:16 am, Elias Pschernig said:
> > Plus, what reason would you have in the first place to specify the exact
> > pixel format? Something like 32-bit or 16-bit makes sense (at least, if
> > you allow users to configure this) - but requesting BGR or RGB ordering
> > just asks for your program to fail on some drivers which can only do
> > one, or can only accelerate one.
>
> Well if you're going to be using direct memory access, you'll probably want to specify
> an exact format rather than support all possible formats you can get.
>
Of course - but usually (not always of course) direct access will be
limited to bitmaps, not the display.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>