Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:21:00 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts |
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Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/31/06, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> > And it can be done. The matrox driver in 2.4 can do just that. For >> 2.6, >> > we have tileblitting which is a drawing method that can handle pure >> text. >> > None of the drivers use this, but vgacon can be trivially written as a >> > framebuffer driver that uses tileblitting (instead of the default >> bitblit). >> > >> > I believe that there was a vgafb driver before that does exactly >> what you >> > want. >> >> Indeed. Early 2.1.x had a vgafb and an fbcon-vga, before vgacon >> existed in its >> current form. > > Moving back to a vgafb with text mode support in fbcon would be one > way to eliminate a few of the way too many graphics drivers. I don't > see any real downside side to doing this, does any one else see any > problems?
An optional vgafb driver is probably a good idea. It's downside is probably slower performance.
I may start work on a userland fb driver that can support both graphics and text mode this weekend.
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