Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965161AbWFACVU (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 22:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751667AbWFACVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 22:21:19 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.203]:35277 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751500AbWFACVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 May 2006 22:21:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KdRJgHJnNec7NJvQirNnqiPKgq8Xk5NLLD8Hst9gTVytG6EAF4BjSZps4UKrtTZFdAInvwFKiykV4W4TmVIIfEafzKA9LoZz7/ZN+hkAjAyiNE3OjF/xk/Xes+WeiHND4Ir9Flb7HQb8m9hsGj85hu9opGqK3ckfcjMWEkLR67M= Message-ID: <447E4F0C.1000202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:21:00 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Ondrej Zajicek , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts 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> <9e4733910605311257m19450bbai4c3ae6fdc7909a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910605311257m19450bbai4c3ae6fdc7909a4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1331 Lines: 36 Jon Smirl wrote: > 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? An optional vgafb driver is probably a good idea. It's downside is probably slower performance. I may start work on a userland fb driver that can support both graphics and text mode this weekend. Tony - 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/