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		9point6 on Nov 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 5K iMac Gets 10-Bit Color I wonder why it's not ARG10101010 for 10-bit RGB + Alpha Surely it's not actually 2 bit Alpha in ARG2101010

makomk on Nov 3, 2015 [–]

The alpha part of the framebuffer isn't actually used because monitors don't support an alpha channel, it's just convenient to pad everything out to 32 bits anyway.

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