Re: Framebuffer mostly not needed by ia32 boxens.. :)

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 11:45:46 -0500

Aaron Tiensivu <tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu> said:
> What people don't seem to realize is that the framebuffer code is mainly
> made for non-ia32 boxes that don't have hardware text support. I'd highly
> advise not using it on most ia32 boxes except when playing with neat
> videocapture software... ;-)

AFAIU, the whole idea of including this stuff in the ia32 configuration is
to get rid of the specialized ia32 kludge that does the console now... so
it _is_ supposed to be used on intel boxes.

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