From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] FBDev: vga16fb port Date: 03 Dec 2002 17:22:35 +0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1038917280.1228.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Cc: Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:31, James Simmons wrote: > > > Attached is a patch against 2.5.49 + James Simmons' latest fbdev.diff. > > > > Added support for logo drawing. > > Fixed vga16fb_imageblit() limitation of 8-pixel wide bitmap blitting > > only. > > Applied and tested :-=) The only weird thing is it drew the logo twice > when I don't have a SMP laptop. It works other than that. > Should be expected if the fbcon_show_logo() patch did not take. I'm resubmitting another patch in one of my replies. > P.S > Things I like to get done for the vga16fb driver. > > 1) Its own read and write functions to fake a linear framebuffer. Should be doable with fb_write and fb_read, but with mmap, the app still needs to know the VGA format. > 2) The ability to go back to vga text mode on close of /dev/fb. > Yes fbdev/fbcon supports that now. I'll take a stab at writing VGA save/restore routines which hopefully is generic enough to be used by various hardware. No promises though, VGA programming gives me a headache :( Tony