Re: PATCH: move soft_cursor into fbconsole

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 6/11/05, James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org> 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.

The way things are now I can't use the hardware cursors without
triggering the software one.  The way I changed it user space (when
the interface is finished) will get hardware or nothing. fbconsole
will get the same hardware or nothing, but if nothing it implements a
software cursor.

The question here is who is responsible for generating a software
cursor, is it the hardware driver's responsibility or the app using
the system? fbconsole would be considered an app using the system.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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