Re: GGI and cli/sti in X

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:09:56 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> [fbcon as I understand it, ends at an earlier time: No standardized
> support for accel stuff, etc.]

Acceleration is completely[*] left to user space, where it belongs.

This is the `put in the kernel only what you really need' paradigm.

Greetings,

Geert

[*] Except for basic text acceleration using rectfill/rectcopy.

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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