On Friday 02 June 2006 04:34, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:15:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> Without specifying a design here are a few requirements I would have:
> >>
> >> 1) The kernel subsystem should be agnostic of the display server. The
> >> solution should not be X specific. Any display system should be able
> >> to use it, SDL, Y Windows, Fresco, etc...
> >
> > of course, but that doesn't mean it can't re-use X's code, they are
> > the best drivers we have. you forget everytime that the kernel fbdev
> > drivers aren't even close, I mean not by a long long way apart from
> > maybe radeon.
>
> matroxfb is clearly better than the X driver. atyfb too IMO.
Hopefully the work me, Dave and Tony are doing is going to make it a level
field. If it still doesn't improve things you are still free to use the fbcon
system. THat's one part of the design that will not change.
DRH
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