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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178061509.4606.27.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705011433050.3808@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> > 

> And yes, I'm literally talking about the *text* modes. Not all of us want 
> to have fbcon built in - I prefer my text-mode lean and mean and fast as 
> hell, and if I want a frame buffer, I'll take X11, thank you very much.
> 

I would agree with the lean and mean, but faster, that's another
question.  Even vesafb at 640x480-8 with ypan and mtrr is 30% faster
than vgacon (And for those of you with vesafb that cannot ypan, try
vgacon with the 'no-scroll' option for a more apple-to-apple
comparison).  And with chipset-specific drivers, it can be as much as 3x
faster than vgacon.

Anyway, my default console is still text mode, even though I'm the
framebuffer maintainer :-)

Tony



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01  1:33 arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  1:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-01  1:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02  7:46     ` Martin Mares
2007-05-02  9:22       ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 20:49         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03  2:15         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 19:05       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-01  1:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-01  2:17   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  2:34     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01  3:46       ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01  2:54         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  4:29           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01  3:38             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  3:06         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01  3:21           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  3:41             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01  3:44               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01  2:59   ` Dave Jones
2007-05-01 20:32   ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:01     ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:41     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01 21:52       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14  4:51         ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-14  5:11           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14  7:18             ` Oleg Verych
2007-05-01 22:59       ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 23:18       ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2007-05-02 18:22       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-02 20:59         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:07           ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:15             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:20               ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:25                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:39                   ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:11                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 22:49                       ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:59                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 23:18                           ` Rene Herman
2007-05-03  2:09                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01  3:56 ` WANG Cong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-01 22:41 Vlad
2007-05-01 23:22 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02  1:10   ` Vlad
2007-05-02 18:25 ` Jan Engelhardt

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