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Xavier Bestel wrote: > Don't save the framebuffer. Just send a message to the client > application saying "fb is corrupted, please redraw". X11 can do it, > console can do it.> Sure, X has no problem doing an expose event on the entire screen. But then the kernel would need a way to tell X that the display was invalidated outside its control. Is there even an API for that today? The problem isn't trivial, for the machine may be running quite a few xservers. Or some other sort of software that uses the framebuffer. (libsvga, y, berlin, ...) Helge Hafting - 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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