Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux

Jes Degn Soerensen (jds@kom.auc.dk)
28 Mar 1998 13:10:08 +0100


>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org> writes:

Erik> On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 05:50:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven
Erik> wrote:
>> For text console acceleration (mainly scrolling), the kernel knows
>> how to do simple blits for some chipsets. If no blit routines are
>> available, it will use the CPU.

Erik> Hmm. Could fbcon be made to work _with_ libggi?

I don't see why not.

Erik> That way the
Erik> framebuffer's drawing and acceleration code could stay in the
Erik> userspace libggi library -- not in the kernel. This move to a
Erik> userspace libggi could also move the "blits for some chipsets"
Erik> code already in the kernel out to userspace as well.

[snip]

We want to be able to do very simple blits within the kernel to speed
up scrolling on framebuffer driven consoles (ie. non text-mode). The
rest (including the simple blits themselves) can be done from
user-space in a library.

Jes

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