Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:20:25 +0100 | From | Andrej Presern <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux [humor] |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > > (Note BTW its arguable that soon not only text mode but all direct frame > > > buffer access will go out of fashion. Its an expensive slowing item that > > > adds cost and major complexity to the performance critical memory subsystem > > > on the video card). > > > > Erk! So what happens to blitting images to the screen? > > Dear graphics controller, there is a nice pixmap in main memory at > 0xD0A13C30, its 64x64 pixels square and in RGB888 format, please map it > to the 8bit mode colours you are in and dither if neccessary. If you'd be > kind enough to post me an interrupt when you've finished I'd be greatful > > Yours > The processor
Or, it could be:
Welcome to the revolution, Linux:)
Graphics controller
We definitely need graphics support in the kernel:)
Andrej
-- Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si
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