Re: OpenGL-based framebuffer concepts

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:53:09AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> David Lang wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 May 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> So even a dumb driver such as vesafb that has to do on the fly
> color conversions while pushing 64x more data to the bus can be
> faster than vgacon.

I just implemented text mode switch and tileblit ops into viafb
(http://davesdomain.org.uk/viafb/index.php) and it is about four
times faster than accelerated graphics mode and about eight times
faster than unaccelerated graphics mode (both measured using cat
largefile with ypan disabled). So textmode is meaningful
alternative.

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