Re: [RFC] Does fbdev need a cursor API for userland?

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:47:15 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas
<adaplas@hotpop.com> wrote:

> IMO, I believe that the cursor ioctl should just be removed :-)

The merged fbdev/DRM needs hardware cursor support in fbdev but it
doesn't need the fbdev cursor IOCTL. Moving cursor support to fbcon
won't work either. Implementing cursor support in merged fbdev/DRM
probably means a modified API since we have to deal with multiple
heads.

Are there cards still out there with no hardware cursor support?
How many apps use the user space fbdev interface?

Also, a some point I would like to revisit the fbcon/fbdev interface
and reduce the number of fbdev variables fbcon can access but doesn't
use. fbcon shouldn't have direct access to the fb_info struct, there
should be more of an interface there.


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