Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965138AbWEaVXX (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 17:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965147AbWEaVXX (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 17:23:23 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.202]:2570 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965138AbWEaVXW (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 17:23:22 -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=XxyuCTUFqluwWyWD+VhUOklhXP171YLdPrUJAdZtpNphyhKxb3O1Abw/2Zosn8IXaFsKL9avz0ArxwJgVw72y2mOeI0dSUllNX+YWLGEeofu1LZw0CkUQZhSP2966VtwSFmlxnmOKLo4shJ2eOPoFVcLBOE3IJjZtuCdY1kEkR8= Message-ID: <9e4733910605311423o14858c8fi8679b51ce2f52bca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:23:21 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Matthew Garrett" Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts Cc: "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "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> <200605280112.01639.dhazelton@enter.net> <21d7e9970605281613y3c44095bu116a84a66f5ba1d7@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910605281759j2e7bebe1h6e3f2bf1bdc3fc50@mail.gmail.com> <20060530223513.GA32267@localhost.localdomain> <447CD367.5050606@gmail.com> <9e4733910605311257m19450bbai4c3ae6fdc7909a4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 29 On 5/31/06, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > 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? > > Just to check what you mean by "text mode" - is this vga mode 3, or > a graphical vga mode with text drawn in it? vga16fb doesn't work on all > hardware that vgacon works on, much to my continued misery. Text mode meaning the non-bitmap display modes where the video hardware generates the glyphs. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org > -- 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/