I was for five weeks in U.S., so I did not do anything with
matroxfb during that time. I plan to use fillrect and copyrect
from generic code 

I have ported the accelerated functions to the new api. What is left is to 
deal with the loadfont and putcs issue which I'm working on the code right 
now.

(although it means unnecessary multiply on
generic side, and division in matroxfb, 

????

but well, if we gave
up on reasonable speed for fbdev long ago...). 

This is not true. Several benchmarks have shown a large performance 
improvement in 2.5.X.

But I simply
want loadfont and putcs hooks for character painting. And if 
fbdev maintainer does not want to give me them, well, then 
matroxfb and fbdev are not compatible.

Working on it. I starting with Tony's tileblit patch but I plan to expand 
it even more i.e texture maps to draw fonts.
 

(3) persuade me that I want to write matroxcon and forget about fbcon at all, or

This is the best solution. 

Besides that with that strange additional copy in accel_putcs
I get much slower output than with 2.4.x... and although I

Again not true.



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