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From: Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fbdev: add fillrect and copyarea ioctls
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:55:59 +0430
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Cc: fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>, Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>, Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:47:09 +0430
> Ali Gholami Rudi <ali@rudi.ir> wrote:
> > Is there any reason for not adding these ioctls to fbdev?  I searched
> > the net and couldn't any.  Anyway, these patches simply implement
> > those ioctls.
> > 
> 
> can we turn this around, is there a reason to add them?
> or in other words, how / where would these be used ?

User-space programs that use framebuffer directly can use them.  I was
writing a simple framebuffer virtual terminal (using libfreetype for
fonts; like fbterm); scrolling and painting boxes would be faster if
there was someway of using hardware accelerated operations.  I think
other similar programs can benefit, too.

	Ali