Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Pavel Machek]

On Po 29-05-06 17:23:59, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >These are very reasonable rules... but still, I think we need to move
> >away from vgacon/vesafb. We need proper hardware drivers for our
> >hardware.
> 
> I agree we need proper drivers, but moving away from vesafb will be 
> tough... moving away from vgacon is likely impossible for many many 
> years yet.
> 
> Once proper hardware drivers exist, you will still need to support 
> booting into a situation where you probably need video before a driver 
> can be loaded -- e.g. distro installers.  Server owners will likely 
> prefer vgacon over a huge video driver they will never use for anything 
> but text mode console.

Well, I agree that vesafb and vgacon need to exist and are useful for
installation/servers/etc. I was arguing that some combinations are
bad.

Like vgacon + X + 3D acceleration.

									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/