Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 15:57:23 -0400 | From | "Jon Smirl" <> | Subject | Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts |
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On 5/31/06, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> 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?
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