On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 02:29, James Simmons wrote:

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1. Text mode support?

We should remove it. Fbcon is to much bloat for text mode hardware. The 
only driver that does support a text mode matrox. Sparcs do not support 
text mode except for promcon. The issue was was a misunderstanding on teh 
flexiablity of imageblit. The name image blit stirs up this idea of the 
function has to be a place a image in buffer and send it on it way. This 
is not the case. Take a look at cg6.c. Fancy tricks are still possible. 

If you are to add tileblitting, text mode will be inherently supported.

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2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)?

Fbcon needs alot of work on this. In theory it shoudl be smart enought to 
handle the small details. 

Any ideas on how to do this?  I have one in my other mail.

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3. support for unloading of fbcon if modular?

It can be done. I used fbcon modular with MDA text mode. I can test the 
fbcon driver. The issue is if we have more than one vga card whcih vga to 
graphics card mapping. 
 

See my other mail for a proposal on this.

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4. driver specified placement of buffers - for putcs method?

Working on this. I think it is possible to merge the tileblit stuff with 
the new buffer code.

I have to check your newest patch.

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5. flexible logo placement/overlayed logo?

Not so important. More important is fixing fbcon to work with the logo 
code. You can't compile it right now.

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6. generic console display rotation?

Not so important right now. I removed the poll stuff. using signals is 
better.

Yes, I think so too.

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7. Anything else?

The cursor code needs cleanup and documentation. 

I already have stuff in my tree where fbcon allocates cursor resources
per device.  So there's no more static declarations in accel_cursor (and
accel_putcs).  I can submit that if you want.

I also added some locking code for accel_cursor, as well as accel_putcs,
just in case thread-safety is indeed an issue.

I'm also starting to clean up fbcon_cursor and the vbl_handler. 
Ideally, they should also be allocated per device so multi-seat can be
made possible.  It's low-priority right now.

Tony



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