On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:22, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > > Things I like to get done for the vga16fb driver.
> > >
> > > 1) Its own read and write functions to fake a linear framebuffer.
> > Should be doable with fb_write and fb_read, but with mmap, the app still
> > needs to know the VGA format.
>
> I question whether thats something that belongs anywhere near the
> kernel. Ben Pfaff wrote a fine library for vga16 hackery (BOGL) and it
> combines very nicely with the fb driver.
I kinda agree with this. Most fb apps use mmap to access the
framebuffer, so it's almost impossible to fake a linear framebuffer from
a planar one.
>
> > > 2) The ability to go back to vga text mode on close of /dev/fb.
> > > Yes fbdev/fbcon supports that now.
> >
> > I'll take a stab at writing VGA save/restore routines which hopefully is
> > generic enough to be used by various hardware. No promises though, VGA
> > programming gives me a headache :(
>
> You can pull the code out of the old svgalib library. Since its not
> doing any card specific stuff the generic vga->text restore ought to do
> the right thing.
>
Thanks for the info. I think I'll review this one to see what I missed.
Tony
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