From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: PATCH: move soft_cursor into fbconsole Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:23:17 -0400 Message-ID: <9e473391050611062323284c4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e47339105061021571f479b10@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Dh5xM-0005tb-3n for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:23:24 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.195]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1Dh5xL-00042I-N3 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:23:24 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so717808wri for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 06:23:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: fbdev , "Antonino A. Daplas" , James Simmons On 6/11/05, James Simmons wrote: >=20 > Ug no. I see in the future more drivers using hardware cursors instead. > We would be carry around extra software cursor code in the the framebuffe= r > console all the time. We need to properly fix the cursor code. Unfortunel= y > that will take more work. In the mean time please encourage people to > support hardware cursors. Even crappy cards have hardware cursors most of > the time. Also, I didn't delete the fb_cursor field. I just removed all of the assignments of .fb_cursor =3D soft_cursor. The field is still there and defaulting to null, except in the three drivers with hardware cursors where it is set. For a driver to implement software cursors it has to know the location of the scanout buffer, scanbuffer format, etc. I not sure if all of this is always know for user space apps. The hardware cursor doesn't need as much info about the framebuffer. --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20