Re: Video subsystem draft

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 23 Oct 2005 12:24, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made a draft how video subsystem could work. It doesn't currently
>> contain information about internals, but is more concentrated on usage
>> of the API.
> 
> GRUB should support modes with fixed palettes, in order to support (firmware) 
> windowing systems, such as RISC OS and Windows CE.
> 
> The VIDC1 256 colour with 16 entry palette modes could also treated as having 
> a fixed palette.

Hi,

Those are called as Index Color mode in that draft. If palette can't be
changed, then those functions used to set palette should fail.

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen