Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:59:22 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.20 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver |
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:25:07AM -0500, Jaya Kumar wrote: > On 2/17/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: > >And, as Andrew suggested last time around, could you perhaps push this > >fancy new idea into the FB layer so that more drivers can make us of it? > > I would like to do that very much. I have some ideas how it could work > for devices that support clean partial updates by tracking touched > pages. But I wonder if it is too early to try to abstract this out. > James, Geert, what do you think? > This would also provide an interesting hook for setting up chained DMA for the real framebuffer updates when there's more than a couple of pages that have been touched, which would also be nice to have. There's more than a few drivers that could take advantage of that. - 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/
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