Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262191AbVCIJfW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:35:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262193AbVCIJfW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:35:22 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:61937 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262191AbVCIJfS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:35:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:34:59 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Linux Frame Buffer Device Development cc: Michal Januszewski , Linux Kernel Development , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash In-Reply-To: <9e473391050308220218cc26a3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20050308015731.GA26249@spock.one.pl> <200503091301.15832.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e473391050308220218cc26a3@mail.gmail.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: 921 Lines: 23 On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > Another idea would be to build a console is user space. Think of it as > a full screen xterm. A user space console has access to full hardware > acceleration using the DRM interface. Yep. And that's what Alan Cox wanted to do. Console in userspace, eye candy (using Porter-Duff blending) as much as you want, full UTF-8 support, ... 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/