Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965130AbWEaT5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 15:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751794AbWEaT5Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 15:57:24 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.196]:52253 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751793AbWEaT5X (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 15:57:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U24vpFrziNMmzz8xScleGBhHURcdDXzk6eGg6EkBMOu6YZrLUcI6Uv7pSqqruHeh5FaSJW9TFCbD/Wxws5NqbUKr/2m4oPoYoT81bP3NccmlgXcpLj3YkG9JunSm0Ys7XCIzQzNd5TbQQLepsQGJLdh4ctnerGB4A/MAS2ZOWus= Message-ID: <9e4733910605311257m19450bbai4c3ae6fdc7909a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:57:23 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" , "Ondrej Zajicek" , "Linux Kernel Development" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200605272245.22320.dhazelton@enter.net> <9e4733910605272027o7b59ea5n5d402dabdd7167cb@mail.gmail.com> <200605280112.01639.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605281613y3c44095bu116a84a66f5ba1d7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605281759j2e7bebe1h6e3f2bf1bdc3fc50@mail.gmail.com> <20060530223513.GA32267@localhost.localdomain> <447CD367.5050606@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 27 On 5/31/06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > And it can be done. The matrox driver in 2.4 can do just that. For 2.6, > > we have tileblitting which is a drawing method that can handle pure text. > > None of the drivers use this, but vgacon can be trivially written as a > > framebuffer driver that uses tileblitting (instead of the default bitblit). > > > > I believe that there was a vgafb driver before that does exactly what you > > want. > > Indeed. Early 2.1.x had a vgafb and an fbcon-vga, before vgacon existed in its > current form. Moving back to a vgafb with text mode support in fbcon would be one way to eliminate a few of the way too many graphics drivers. I don't see any real downside side to doing this, does any one else see any problems? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/