From: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>,
"Linux Frame Buffer Device Development"
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] neofb patches
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:40:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040501004059.GD30285@guug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404301707110.12865-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-01 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-21 1:14 [PATCH] neofb patches Alex Stewart
2004-04-21 17:47 ` James Simmons
2004-04-21 19:10 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-04-22 8:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-23 23:27 ` James Simmons
2004-04-23 16:53 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-23 20:03 ` James Simmons
2004-04-23 18:35 ` James Simmons
2004-04-23 19:54 ` James Simmons
2004-04-22 3:18 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-22 20:57 ` James Simmons
2004-04-23 4:03 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-23 6:43 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-23 23:00 ` James Simmons
2004-04-23 23:00 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2004-04-24 3:15 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-04-24 7:08 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-24 7:08 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alex Stewart
2004-04-25 3:10 ` James Simmons
2004-04-25 3:10 ` James Simmons
2004-04-25 3:09 ` James Simmons
2004-04-25 3:09 ` James Simmons
2004-04-24 17:29 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-24 17:29 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alex Stewart
2004-04-25 0:55 ` James Simmons
2004-04-25 0:55 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2004-04-26 18:12 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-27 0:11 ` James Simmons
2004-04-27 1:15 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-27 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-27 10:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-27 20:25 ` James Simmons
2004-04-27 22:48 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-27 23:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-27 23:21 ` James Simmons
2004-04-27 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-27 23:46 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-27 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 0:38 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 0:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 1:39 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 3:17 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-28 3:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 17:02 ` James Simmons
2004-04-28 4:36 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 4:56 ` Alex Stewart
2004-04-28 6:59 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 8:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-28 22:00 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 0:29 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 0:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-04-28 1:15 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 1:21 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-28 16:53 ` James Simmons
2004-04-28 0:23 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 0:20 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 0:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 7:08 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 8:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-28 10:16 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-28 16:37 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 16:50 ` James Simmons
2004-04-28 22:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-28 23:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 23:59 ` James Simmons
2004-04-29 1:06 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-29 1:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-29 16:56 ` James Simmons
2004-04-29 21:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-30 15:06 ` Ville Syrjälä
2004-04-30 16:50 ` James Simmons
2004-05-01 0:40 ` Otto Solares [this message]
2004-05-06 19:28 ` Mobility M1 refresh code problem 2.4.26? Richard Smith
2004-05-06 19:57 ` Mikael Eriksson
2004-05-06 20:35 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-06 20:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-05-06 21:12 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-07 7:57 ` Mikael Eriksson
2004-05-07 14:11 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-07 15:34 ` Mikael Eriksson
2004-05-07 19:42 ` Richard Smith
2004-05-07 23:11 ` Mikael Eriksson
2004-04-29 8:32 ` [PATCH] neofb patches Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-29 1:07 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-29 1:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-29 13:01 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-29 17:52 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-29 23:12 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-30 1:18 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-30 1:28 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-04-30 21:26 ` Otto Solares
2004-04-28 23:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-28 17:39 ` James Simmons
2004-04-28 18:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-28 22:46 ` John Zielinski
2004-04-27 8:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-04-23 16:07 ` James Simmons
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