ugh my framebuffer is 16 bits per pixel?

[foone@digipres.club]

ugh my framebuffer is 16 bits per pixel?

ewwwwwwww

[foone@digipres.club]

yeah my images have less than 256 colors and could be shown just fine on a paletted display, but 16-bits-per-pixel is gross

[foone@digipres.club]

especially since I'm not sure how to get linux to tell me how those bits are layed out. is this RGB555 or RGB565 or something weirder?

[foone@digipres.club]

it's 565 according to fbset.

now I gotta write/steal some RGB888 to 565 code because nothing can be simple.

[foone@digipres.club]

yeah that's not... no.

[foone@digipres.club]

Got it. Had to encode it vertically and with left and right swapped, little-endian.

And yes, I wasn't joking about prototyping my linux-device UI in Visual Basic!