On 5/31/06, Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> And it can be done. The matrox driver in 2.4 can do just that. For 2.6,
> we have tileblitting which is a drawing method that can handle pure text.
> None of the drivers use this, but vgacon can be trivially written as a
> framebuffer driver that uses tileblitting (instead of the default bitblit).
>
> I believe that there was a vgafb driver before that does exactly what you
> want.
Indeed. Early 2.1.x had a vgafb and an fbcon-vga, before vgacon existed in its
current form.
Moving back to a vgafb with text mode support in fbcon would be one
way to eliminate a few of the way too many graphics drivers. I don't
see any real downside side to doing this, does any one else see any
problems?
--
Jon Smirl
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