From: Alan C. <al...@lx...> - 2002-12-03 15:14:00
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:22, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > Things I like to get done for the vga16fb driver. > > > > 1) Its own read and write functions to fake a linear framebuffer. > Should be doable with fb_write and fb_read, but with mmap, the app still > needs to know the VGA format. I question whether thats something that belongs anywhere near the kernel. Ben Pfaff wrote a fine library for vga16 hackery (BOGL) and it combines very nicely with the fb driver. > > 2) The ability to go back to vga text mode on close of /dev/fb. > > Yes fbdev/fbcon supports that now. > > I'll take a stab at writing VGA save/restore routines which hopefully is > generic enough to be used by various hardware. No promises though, VGA > programming gives me a headache :( You can pull the code out of the old svgalib library. Since its not doing any card specific stuff the generic vga->text restore ought to do the right thing. |