Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FBdev updates.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

  My main concern now is 12x22 font... Accelerator setup
is so costly for each separate painted character that for 8bpp 
accelerated version is even slower than unaccelerated one :-(
(and almost twice as slow when compared with 2.4.x).

Have you already tried Antonino's patches to use one imageblit for multiple
characters with (fontwidth % 8) != 0? It should help.

BTW, I still have to try it with amifb.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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