On 6/11/05, James Simmons [off-list ref] wrote:

Ug no. I see in the future more drivers using hardware cursors instead.
We would be carry around extra software cursor code in the the framebuffer
console all the time. We need to properly fix the cursor code. Unfortunely
that will take more work. In the mean time please encourage people to
support hardware cursors. Even crappy cards have hardware cursors most of
the time.

Also, I didn't delete the fb_cursor field. I just removed all of the
assignments of .fb_cursor = soft_cursor. The field is still there and
defaulting to null, except in the three drivers with hardware cursors
where it is set.

For a driver to implement software cursors it has to know the location
of the scanout buffer, scanbuffer format, etc. I not sure if all of
this is always know for user space apps. The hardware cursor doesn't
need as much info about the framebuffer.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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