Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [Patch 2] Console Rotation

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 22:35, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2002, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > cfbcopyarea.c is just a 'copy 'n paste' of Geert's version I leached
> > from fbutils (I hope this is okay with you, Geert :)  The only changes
> > are using FB_WRITEL and FB_READL where appropriate. 
> 
> Of course (actually that was my intention ;-)
Thanks.

> 
> Did you measure any noticeable differences (performance-wise) with the old
> routines?
> 
Yes, but not by much, something like less than a second.  But I haven't
really done a test where the primary operation is copyarea...  Will this
be affected by the the setting of display->scrollmode?  I use
SCROLL_YREDRAW.

> BTW, expect a fillrect() for arbitrary bitdepths soon...
This is good :)  The one I included should do that too, but it is
terribly inefficient.  

Tony