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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Eger <eger@theboonies.us>,
	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB accel capabilities patch
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:14:01 +0200 (MEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405191311360.23702@waterleaf.sonytel.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040519030319.1f0e6eec.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Eger <eger@theboonies.us> wrote:
> > A month or two ago I noticed that the framebuffer console driver doesn't
> >  know to do proper framebuffer acceleration in Linux 2.6;
>
> For what fbdev operations will acceleration be used?

Text console acceleration (rectangle copy, rectangle fill, bitmap expansion,
panning, y-wrap). These have been in use since ages, but the current 2.6 fbcon
code doesn't use all of it anymore.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-19 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-19  9:36 David Eger
2004-05-19 10:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-19 11:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2004-05-19 23:31   ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-20  8:19     ` [OT ML related] Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli
2004-05-20  8:54       ` Jurriaan
2004-05-20  9:09         ` Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli
2004-05-20  9:20           ` DervishD
2004-05-20  9:23             ` Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli
2004-05-20  9:32               ` Russell King
2004-05-20 15:54   ` [PATCH 1/4] James' fbcon init and con2fb cleanup David Eger
2004-05-20 15:59     ` [PATCH 2/4] FB accel capabilities (core update) David Eger
2004-05-20 16:00     ` [PATCH 1/4] James' fbcon init and con2fb cleanup James Simmons
2004-05-20 16:01     ` [PATCH 3/4] s/FBINFO_FLAG_/FBINFO_/g David Eger
2004-05-20 16:03     ` [PATCH 4/4] radeonfb accel capabilities David Eger
2004-05-19 19:34 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB accel capabilities patch James Simmons
2004-05-19 21:39   ` David Eger
2004-05-19 21:47     ` James Simmons

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