Re: Feature Freeze?

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:46:37PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > I thought that the new API, separating the fbcon layer from the fbdev
> > drivers would add support for this more easily. I guess it would be easy
> > for the Appian Jeronimo 2000 board, which has two permedia3 chips, and
> > thus can be seen as two separate devices. Cards with two ramdacs per
> > chip, like the G400, the later radeon's and most recent cards would need
> > driver level support, that is understandable, but is all there for fbcon
> > to take advantage of it ? What about multi-seat, with two full consoles,
> > with mouse and keyboard for each ?
> > 
> 
> This was one of the goals of the Ruby project, but I think it's mostly 
> the input layer that got into the kernel. 

:(((

> Fbcon needs to be cleaned up, a lot. It still implements the "current
> console or foreground console" concept (only one console active at a
> time).  Also, this is more of a job for linuxconsole than fbdev.  I may
> be wrong though.

Mmm, do you know who is working on linuxconsole, and what their plan are ?

> > > It does have one benefit though, the newer code should make it easier to
> > > add an infrastructure on top of fbdev, such as xinerama-style support. 
> > > But this will be in the future.
> > 
> > Mmm, I don't know if there is really a point to this, are there really
> > all that much applications which do xinerama-like things on top of fbdev ?
> > I rather thought that more higlevel userland apps would be doing this.
> > like either xfree86 with chip-specific drivers or fbdev drivers, or
> > directfb or something such.
> > 
> 
> You're right, xinerama is mainly user-app.

:)))

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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