> It turns out that the interface 9pi used for querying framebuffer depth > is also now broken. Setting framebuffer_depth=N in config.txt used to > work for changing the pixel format, now it doesn't.
OK, new 9pi and 9pi2 kernels in /n/sources/contrib/miller should now do the right thing for 24bpp, which can be requested with framebuffer_depth=24 in config.txt or vgasize=WxHx24 in cmdline.txt