Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] The future of framebuffer

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

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Sven wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:58:51PM +0400, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > > Sure, but you aren't listening, you just plainly ignore all the non=
-i386
> > > hardware out there, as well as all the older vide ocards. And there=
 are a lot
> > > of graphic cards that are supported but are not VESA 2.=E0 or later=
 compatible.
> > >=20
> > > Also you plainly forget all those where VESA support is somewhat br=
oken.
> > >=20
> > > and if you use vesafb, you already have most of the fbdve infrastru=
cture in
> > > anyway, so why not use decent drivers ?
> > >=20
> > I'm sorry - I didn't know about non-x86 architectures.
>=20
> Remember, fbdev was first developped by Geert on amiga hardware for
> linux/m68k, if i am not mistaken. These hardware don't have text consol=
es, and

Slight correction: by Martin Schaller on Atari. But he disappeared from t=
he
scene and I took over.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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