Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266341AbUIJIEp (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:04:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267199AbUIJICO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:02:14 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:55487 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266884AbUIJIBo (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:01:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:58:06 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Linux Fbdev development list cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Development , Petr Vandrovec Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 7/7] fbdev: Add Tile Blitting support In-Reply-To: <200409100534.56680.adaplas@hotpop.com> Message-ID: References: <200409100534.56680.adaplas@hotpop.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1955 Lines: 43 On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > --- linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4-orig/drivers/video/Kconfig 2004-09-10 04:43:22.834414192 +0800 > +++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4/drivers/video/Kconfig 2004-09-10 05:01:35.555295368 +0800 > @@ -49,6 +49,24 @@ config FB_MODE_HELPERS > your driver does not take advantage of this feature, choosing Y will > just increase the kernel size by about 5K. > > +config FB_TILEBLITTING > + bool "Enable Tile Blitting Support" > + depends on FB > + default n > + ---help--- > + This enables tile blitting. Tile blitting is a drawing technique > + where the screen is divided into rectangular sections (tiles), whereas > + the standard blitting divides the screen into pixels. Because the > + default drawing element is a tile, drawing functions will be passed > + parameters in terms of number of tiles instead of number of pixels. > + For example, to draw a single character, instead of using bitmaps, > + an index to an array of bitmaps will be used. To clear or move a > + rectangular section of a screen, the rectangle willbe described in ^^^^^^ will be > + terms of number of tiles in the x- and y-axis. > + > + This is particularly important to one driver, the matroxfb. If ^^^^^^^^^^^^ matroxfb? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/