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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.

Okay. Then that idea is scrapped.