Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945980AbXEAVxL (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:53:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945993AbXEAVxL (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:53:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:45727 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945980AbXEAVxI (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 17:53:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4637B6B5.5060502@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:53 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Rene Herman , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <4637A3F6.70508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 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: 849 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And yes, I'm literally talking about the *text* modes. Not all of us want > to have fbcon built in - I prefer my text-mode lean and mean and fast as > hell, and if I want a frame buffer, I'll take X11, thank you very much. > I use framebuffer console pretty much for one purpose -- it sucks less memory bandwidth when you're stuck with a UMA configuration. Text modes require random access to the font buffer, which means it hogs the DRAM pretty badly, unless the chipset designer decided to burn an 8K SRAM, which is still a pretty pricey hunk of chip real estate. -hpa - 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/