Re: Framebuffer with banked memory

[Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 05:44, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 12:02, alain volmat wrote:
> > >
> > > What about adding fb_write / fb_read function in the
> > > framebuffer (device dependant) driver. The same way as
> > > for fb_mmap. I saw that at the beginning of fb_mmap in
> > > fbmem.c, there is a test to see if the device driver
> > > contains its own fb_mmap function, if so the device
> > > driver fb_mmap will be used instead of the "generic"
> > > fb_mmap. What about doing the same thing for fb_write
> > > / fb_read.
> > >
> > I've seen a post by James sometimes ago about adding fb_write and
> > fb_read to info->fbops.
> 
> Correct. The next set of fbdev changes will include this plus I added
> fb_sync!!! Iknow this will make you happy:-)
> 

Indeed :-), not just me, but others too, I guess. Selective hardware
syncs will maximize the graphics instruction pipeline.

Tony



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