Re: PATCH: move soft_cursor into fbconsole

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 7/25/05, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > 1) the current ioctl one
> 
> Defunct.
> 
> > 2) the new stuff in sysfs. If the hardware cursor is there you get a sysfs
> > attribute named cursor. write x,y to it to move the cursor around. I'll add
> > the sysfs support as soon as we decide on the interface.
> 
> I was playing with that a bit.
> 
> > I'm still at OLS. Missed seeing both of you at KS. fbdev was discussed and
> > Linus went with Benh's proposal to move the modesetting API to user space.
> > Obviously this will have a lot of impact on fbdev.
> 
> I don't have any money to go to such events :-( Looks like fbdev is going
> away completly :-< We will need embedded graphics libraries to boot a
> machine in the future. I seen this coming and thats why my motivation for
> development keeps dropping. I suggest they make a big diff to remove the
> whole system.

It is a long way from Linus telling BenH to go ahead and having a
replacement system in the kernel. My bet is that userspace mode
setting only happens for a couple of chips. I don't see a lot of
people jumping up to replace the existing system. I was pushing to
keep fbdev the way it is but without either of the maintainers there
to defend fbdev it is a hard sell.

If you write a paper for OLS, get it accepted and present it; the
sponsors will probably pay your airfare. Hotels can be had for
$40/night. Work on Ted to get an invite to Kernel Summit and then give
him four months notice that you need airfare and you'll probably get
it.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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