Comment 11 for bug 554143

So, as Sarvatt explained on irc, ati cards with <=32Mb get the console dropped to 8bpp by the following patch:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=47381156a8f0d793bacfa346cc4cc515399525f7

(comment in code is wrong, it's 32Mb, not 16Mb)