On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Keith Packard wrote:

> 
> Around 7 o'clock on Jul 22, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> 
> > I guess I can put in a comment and assume that d>32 requires major 
> > reworking on the server.
> 
> The core protocol limits depth to 32 bits and that limit is reflected 
> rather pervasively throughout the server code.

Ah. That simplifies things a lot.
 
> Any extension to allow deeper pixels would have to hide the additional 
> bits from the core protocol.

I was miss remembering my experience of 48bit depths on SGI -
I was using GL, so no X involved.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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