Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Feature Freeze?

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:26:04PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I believe it's time to finalize what is needed/not needed for the
> framebuffer framework:
> 
> 1. Text mode support?

Would this work also on arches which don't traditionnaly do text mode ?
Like ppc for example. 

> 2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)?

What about dynamic multi-head support ?

> 7. Anything else?

Well, what is the exact status of mult-head and multi-seat ? It is
supposed to work, but i did not (yet) experience it myself, mainly
because non of my graphic cards are yet supported. One point i would
like to see addressed is the ability to share one framebuffer and have
both heads be separate viewports into this same framebuffer. This
means setting a framebuffer with a stride equal to the sum of both's
head resolution and having each head display a subset of it. This would
also include having one head be a mirror of the other and other such
things. This feature and resizing may cause problems though.

> 8. feature freeze deadline?

This would be for fbdev deature freeze, right, not for the drivers ?

BTW, i will no more be able to work on pm3fb, since i just recently
noticed that my nice AGP8 supporting motherboard doesn't accept my
Appian Jeronimo 2000 board. :(((

Friendly,

Sven Luther