From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Feature Freeze? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:05:29 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030305110529.GA2036@iliana> References: <1046852721.1228.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out-3.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.233] helo=mel-rto3.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18qWic-00084o-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 03:05:50 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046852721.1228.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Antonino Daplas Cc: Linux Fbdev development list On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:26:04PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > Hi, > > I believe it's time to finalize what is needed/not needed for the > framebuffer framework: > > 1. Text mode support? Would this work also on arches which don't traditionnaly do text mode ? Like ppc for example. > 2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)? What about dynamic multi-head support ? > 7. Anything else? Well, what is the exact status of mult-head and multi-seat ? It is supposed to work, but i did not (yet) experience it myself, mainly because non of my graphic cards are yet supported. One point i would like to see addressed is the ability to share one framebuffer and have both heads be separate viewports into this same framebuffer. This means setting a framebuffer with a stride equal to the sum of both's head resolution and having each head display a subset of it. This would also include having one head be a mirror of the other and other such things. This feature and resizing may cause problems though. > 8. feature freeze deadline? This would be for fbdev deature freeze, right, not for the drivers ? BTW, i will no more be able to work on pm3fb, since i just recently noticed that my nice AGP8 supporting motherboard doesn't accept my Appian Jeronimo 2000 board. :((( Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf