On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 01:35, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

quoted

Then, we probably want some way to also enable mirroring instead of
dual head...

Crazy idea: What would break if it defaulted to mirroring? :) You could
achieve true multihead via panning or something...

Not that crazy!

It would revert the current con2fbmap approach: instead of mapping virtual
consoles to frame buffer devices, it would allow to map frame buffer devices to
a virtual console or to another frame buffer device...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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