Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2)

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Base does PCI IDs, EDID, mode setting, command parsing, maybe hardware cursor,
VT switching and state saving.
Second piece does fbcon support such as mapping fb to kernel space, fb accels,
etc.

The current fbdev layer, afaik, impose vt switching, mode setting,
cursor support etc... to imply fbcon. The mapping of fb is just a
2 liner remaining that isn't worth a separate module.

Correct.
 

Also, the accel API in 2.6 is meant to be used by more than just
fbcon afaik.

James, can you comment on this ?

Originally I had ioctl for the accel stuff for testing purposes. Ites 
expensive tho. I wonder if using sysfs for this would be worth it?





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