> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On 17 Aug 1998, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > > As for space I do care - imagine having to do Linux installation
> > > floppies and having to put 50 video drivers on there which includes
> > > acceleration code just to get a simple console display ... its bad
> > > enough with the amount of drivers as it is already.
> >
> > I dont think the the KGIcon people want that.. And I know I dont.
> >
> > What I would see is a small set of BASIC drivers (like vesafb) that get
> > you going. If you want/need better performance you can get an optimized
> > driver and load it at runtime..
>
> So when is someone gonna write a simple basic VGA frame buffer device, that
> does stupid VGA modes (max. 320x256 in 8bpp, 640x480 in 4bpp) only?
isn't this what vgafb did?
> I know VGA is banked, but these days there are mmap() hooks in the frame buffer
> device API.
There are? Can you point me to some documentation?
Jon
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