Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754845AbXEAXSn (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754839AbXEAXSm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:42 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:6481 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754845AbXEAXSl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:18:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=VugIAE1Y0N0BWZA9A5/hprJR2BNTkIUcx325UG9EQ/bofoGUMqyBOKdti3g/+hpFmHB/xAI78amjRKVAxcwMSz+dc8SvuIl3pG4VEGf0Uq2BxBdcc8ZLSPNX0xK0mAmLqcQ4IJO2aOxu7++g03c+3fOj3HTTrlLyUhVCB42VApw= Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rene Herman , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge In-Reply-To: References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <4637A3F6.70508@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:29 +0800 Message-Id: <1178061509.4606.27.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 28 On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Rene Herman 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 would agree with the lean and mean, but faster, that's another question. Even vesafb at 640x480-8 with ypan and mtrr is 30% faster than vgacon (And for those of you with vesafb that cannot ypan, try vgacon with the 'no-scroll' option for a more apple-to-apple comparison). And with chipset-specific drivers, it can be as much as 3x faster than vgacon. Anyway, my default console is still text mode, even though I'm the framebuffer maintainer :-) 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/