Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:00:24 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > Thanks to the fbcon module interface its now about to become
> > a matter of "slightly faster" v "slightly more kernel overhead/memory" by
> > user choice - which is the ideal solution
>
> Would that this were the case. See above. Also, if you use
> X86_FBdev you will have to give up all accelerations except rectangular
> blitting, because that is all the fbcon API supports. XAA will also be

Fbcon doesn't export rectangular blitting neither. fb.h may suggest so, but
that was preliminary. Just removed it in cvs.

> history. You could enhance XF86_FBdev to have knowledge of

Why wouldn't XAA be possible>

> driver-specific acceleration ioctls, but that won't give you the direct
> access necessary to implement XAA efficiently.

Driver specific MMIO mmap, I assume?

There's already an experimental accelerated XF68_FBDev for NCR77C32BLT.

Greetings,

Geert

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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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