Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux | From | Jes Degn Soerensen <> | Date | 28 Mar 1998 13:10:08 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org> writes:
Erik> On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 05:50:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven Erik> wrote: >> For text console acceleration (mainly scrolling), the kernel knows >> how to do simple blits for some chipsets. If no blit routines are >> available, it will use the CPU.
Erik> Hmm. Could fbcon be made to work _with_ libggi?
I don't see why not.
Erik> That way the Erik> framebuffer's drawing and acceleration code could stay in the Erik> userspace libggi library -- not in the kernel. This move to a Erik> userspace libggi could also move the "blits for some chipsets" Erik> code already in the kernel out to userspace as well.
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We want to be able to do very simple blits within the kernel to speed up scrolling on framebuffer driven consoles (ie. non text-mode). The rest (including the simple blits themselves) can be done from user-space in a library.
Jes
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