Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:29:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: my opinion about VGA devices | From | Helge Hafting <> |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:27:08AM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: [...] > As for the framebuffer console, it exists purely to get high resolution > text consoles working with basic graphics capabilities. It was never > intended to be a complete graphics environment, but just the console that > can be used in graphics modes. The original versions of the framebuffer > console code were developed not for x86 machines but for non-x86 machines > that did not have any VGA capabilities at all (ie: Mac's). For Linux to > work on such machines, the console needed to be able to output text in > graphics modes since that is what the machines booted in. Once this was > done for non-x86 boxes, it was realised this would be a 'cool' feature > for x86 machines for two reasons. 1 - you get a nice high resolution text > console, way better than VGA text mode and, 2 - you can display the cool > penguin logo ;-)
And last but not least - you can have several such framebuffers in a single machine, possibly for multi-user purposes. VGA wants to be the only one of its kind . . .
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