[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: status

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

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 22:52, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!!!
> 
>    Just to let you know where I am for the fbdev developement. I finished 
> off the latest api changes. The cursor api has been cleaned up and it uses 
> fb_image struct. This makes life easier. 
>    I ported over the ATI 128 driver to the latest changes. I finished the 
> 3Dfx driver yesterday and got the ATI mach 64 driver done this morning.
> I will test it tomorrow. Then I will finsih up the NVIDIA driver. After 
> that I'm going to push the code to linus. 
Any patches in the meantime?  I have a few changes I can pass to you:

1. optimized putcs to speed up scrolling by 2-3x.  (it's a small patch
but it already outperforms fb-2.4 especially at high color depths).
Compared with the previous patch I submitted, this change is
non-intrusive, so no other changes are required.

2. vga16fb imageblit that supports drawing of the penguin (vga-4-planes
only)

3. logo drawing for directcolor visuals.

The above should complete softaccel support for most hardware except for
the more esoteric ones (mostly authored by Geert).

Also cfbcursor is a bit misleading, no?  It implies support for
packed-pixels only, but I already  use it with vga16fb.

Tony