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

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> 1. Text mode support?

We should remove it. Fbcon is to much bloat for text mode hardware. The 
only driver that does support a text mode matrox. Sparcs do not support 
text mode except for promcon. The issue was was a misunderstanding on teh 
flexiablity of imageblit. The name image blit stirs up this idea of the 
function has to be a place a image in buffer and send it on it way. This 
is not the case. Take a look at cg6.c. Fancy tricks are still possible. 
 
> 2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)?

Fbcon needs alot of work on this. In theory it shoudl be smart enought to 
handle the small details. 

> 3. support for unloading of fbcon if modular?

It can be done. I used fbcon modular with MDA text mode. I can test the 
fbcon driver. The issue is if we have more than one vga card whcih vga to 
graphics card mapping. 
 
> 4. driver specified placement of buffers - for putcs method?

Working on this. I think it is possible to merge the tileblit stuff with 
the new buffer code.

> 5. flexible logo placement/overlayed logo?

Not so important. More important is fixing fbcon to work with the logo 
code. You can't compile it right now.

> 6. generic console display rotation?

Not so important right now. I removed the poll stuff. using signals is 
better.
 
> 7. Anything else?

The cursor code needs cleanup and documentation. 
 
> 8. feature freeze deadline?

We are very near this. IMO we have two things to work on. The buffer stuff 
and cleaning up the cursor code.