Oh. Even the GGI people agree that for performance we _have_ to do the IO
in user space. Taking the overhead of a system call is simply not even an
option.
What's the difference between mapping the frame buffer into user memory
and doing any other IO access?
> And finally, and I'll shout this: "IF ITS TRUE THE NEXT GENERATION OF
> VIDEO CARDS WILL HAVE NO TEXTMODE THEN THE KERNEL will NEED TO KNOW HOW TO
> CHANGE INTO A GFX MODE". Even if we use a VESA bios hack, that's still
> mode-setting code going into the Linux sources :)
Linux has had support for graphical cards for a LONG TIME!
I've been using a TGA card on my alpha, and the TGA doesn't even have a
character mode. We HAVE support for it. We just don't try to do anything
very clever in the kernel.
So stop shouting, it only shows your ignorance.
Linus
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