Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Accel functions

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Scott A McConnell wrote:
> I was wondering how the four new accelerated functions were to be used
> by user land apps.
> 
> (via ioctls? Wouldn't that be slow?)

They are not intended to be used by user land apps, only by the kernel console
driver.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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