From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:53:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: James Simmons cc: Samuel Rydh , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux/PPC Development , olh@suse.de Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Video driver bug In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, James Simmons wrote: > > > I have some ideas but it would requires some changes to the fbcon layer. > > > Also it would move palette handling from fbdev to the console layer. > > > Would these changes be included with the 2.4.0-testX kernels? > > > > I think we must do something in 2.4.0-testX, since you can abuse the bug to > > panic the box. > > We really should design a cursor api. A api independent of the console so > X servers can take advantage of it. IMHO fbcon-cfbX and freinds should > go away. What I purpose is it be replaced by 3 standard functions: > > fillrect > copyarea > drawimage > > This with a clean cursor api woudl allow display_switch to go away. 100% agreed. But that should wait for 2.5.0. Now we have to hunt for release-critical bugs in the current version. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/