From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263687AbUESL0P (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 07:26:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263685AbUESLUm (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 07:20:42 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:9180 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263711AbUESLOV (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 07:14:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:14:01 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Andrew Morton cc: David Eger , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB accel capabilities patch In-Reply-To: <20040519030319.1f0e6eec.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20040519030319.1f0e6eec.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Eger 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