Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] console and overlay/underaly (was: Re: more penguins (fwd)

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> > Something like this can also be done for vgacon. I haven't added that yet.
> 
> vgacon can do overlay ???

Not really. It is a trick you do with planes and the attribute fields in
text mode.

> > plus a flag to say what it is. This would break things tho. I guess it
> > will be for the fb filesystem for 2.5.X.
> 
> Maybe we should involve the author of fbtv, he could tell us the kind of
> stuff that would be needed for efficient hardware YUV->RGB and/or
> zooming in fbtv. I guess other app would have similar requirements.

Good idea.