On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:50:07PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:

2) Several of the above libraries depend on mode changing being avaliable 
   in fbdev. Take that away and alot of companies will be very upset. I 
   tell you if I owned/worked for a company that wrote embedded software 
   that changed the video mode via fbdev (which BTW I do) and that was 
   taken away I would be very upset!!!! The only we use the fbdev interface
   is because it is easy to port our software from one box to another and 
   second it does mode switching for us. We don't need to write the mode 
   switching for each box. You take that away and the reality is companies
   will have no real reason to use the fbdev api anymore. We will just come 
   up with our own thing. Do you really want that to happen?

I agree.  Mode switching is a core function for a low-level graphics layer.

-otto



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