Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:51:18 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > > > As for space I do care - imagine having to do Linux installation > > > > floppies and having to put 50 video drivers on there which includes > > > > acceleration code just to get a simple console display ... its bad > > > > enough with the amount of drivers as it is already. > > > > > > I dont think the the KGIcon people want that.. And I know I dont. > > > > > > What I would see is a small set of BASIC drivers (like vesafb) that get > > > you going. If you want/need better performance you can get an optimized > > > driver and load it at runtime.. > > > > So when is someone gonna write a simple basic VGA frame buffer device, that > > does stupid VGA modes (max. 320x256 in 8bpp, 640x480 in 4bpp) only? > > isn't this what vgafb did?
Vgafb is VGA _text_ only.
> > I know VGA is banked, but these days there are mmap() hooks in the frame buffer > > device API. > > There are? Can you point me to some documentation?
Use the Source, Luke :-)
Look at th mmap() member function in fb_ops. Currently used on SPARC only.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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