Re: [PATCH 0/2] fbdev: add fillrect and copyarea ioctls

[Ali Gholami Rudi]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:47:09 +0430
> Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there any reason for not adding these ioctls to fbdev?  I searched
> > the net and couldn't any.  Anyway, these patches simply implement
> > those ioctls.
> > 
> 
> can we turn this around, is there a reason to add them?
> or in other words, how / where would these be used ?

User-space programs that use framebuffer directly can use them.  I was
writing a simple framebuffer virtual terminal (using libfreetype for
fonts; like fbterm); scrolling and painting boxes would be faster if
there was someway of using hardware accelerated operations.  I think
other similar programs can benefit, too.

	Ali
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