From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.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: Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4637B6B5.5060502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705011433050.3808@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds 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 use framebuffer console pretty much for one purpose -- it sucks less
memory bandwidth when you're stuck with a UMA configuration. Text modes
require random access to the font buffer, which means it hogs the DRAM
pretty badly, unless the chipset designer decided to burn an 8K SRAM,
which is still a pretty pricey hunk of chip real estate.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 21:53 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 [this message]
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
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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