[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbdev, console, (video) overlay/underlay & fbtv

[Romain D. <do...@ir...>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:

> When adding such ioctls to the kernel fbdev drivers I'd try to avoid
> limiting it to one overlay, which in turn means that just two ioctls are
> not enougth.  IMHO it should look like this:
> 
>   (1) A ioctl to allocate a piece of offscreen memory for overlay
>       (with size foo and format bar).
>   (2) A ioctl to ask the driver to start overlay at x,y,w,h.
>   (3) A ioctl to stop overlay
>   (4) A ioctl to free the memory.

I've reworked my current draft proposal for 2.4.x, appended below.
Heavily based on what's available in the Permedia3. Any add-on
(particulary data type) and comments welcome.

> BTW: What is ruby?

The reworked console layer for 2.5.x.

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/>

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