Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Jon Smirl]

On 5/31/06, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?


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Jon Smirl
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