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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@fischlustig.de>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> I like fbdev very well, but I would apreciate a method
> for hardware blits and fills.
> Would be very easy to add this functionality to fbcon.
> I tested it with matroxfb.
> E.g. ClanLib that uses fbdev would be times faster.
> 
> Any oppinions?

Generic hardware blits do not belong in the kernel.

Reasoning: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/Linux/Expo/.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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