Re: DPU-414 terminal

[Jonathan T. <J.T...@so...>]

On Thu, 22 May 2008, someone whose nested quoting has overflowed
my mental stack :) wrote:
> The bitmap terminals are pretty ancient code at this point. 
> Other than special devices like your DPU gadget, there
> isn't any incentive to use or modernize them.  The PBM
> driver was at one point a reasonable output path, but for
> years now PNG has been better for any purpose I can think
> of.

I hope we keep the PBM driver around -- I still use it fairly often
to generate individual frames for encoding into a movie with ppmtompeg
(which only groks a limited set of native input formats: PPM, PNM,
YUV, JPEG, and JMOVIE, but *not* PNG).

ciao,

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