Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux [humor]

Andrej Presern (andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:20:25 +0100

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > (Note BTW its arguable that soon not only text mode but all direct frame
> > > buffer access will go out of fashion. Its an expensive slowing item that
> > > adds cost and major complexity to the performance critical memory subsystem
> > > on the video card).
> >
> > Erk! So what happens to blitting images to the screen?
>
> Dear graphics controller, there is a nice pixmap in main memory at
> 0xD0A13C30, its 64x64 pixels square and in RGB888 format, please map it
> to the 8bit mode colours you are in and dither if neccessary. If you'd be
> kind enough to post me an interrupt when you've finished I'd be greatful
>
> Yours
> The processor

Or, it could be:

Welcome to the revolution, Linux:)

Graphics controller

We definitely need graphics support in the kernel:)

Andrej

-- 
Andrej Presern, andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si




-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu