Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Date | Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:29 +0800 |
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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
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