Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] More fbdev api changes commited

[James A S. <jsi...@ac...>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Dominik Kubla wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:17:47AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > I just commited some fbcon changes. These chanegs break any current 
> 
> How about character attribute handling? Right now the vt emulation handles
> this stuff.  That's plain wrong. It should just tell the screen driver
> to print character c with bold,underline,blink and green color enabled.
> If the backend can't handle that, it should substitute... (Also it would
> of course be a mistake of the VTE to issue a color request on a monochrome
> display...)

Of course. It can do this. If you look at consw their is a function
pointer a driver can have for consoel attributes. Right now I'm working on
the accel wrapper for fbcon. It will support this stuff. First I got to
get the 3Dfx fbdev driver to boot and work. 

> PPS. I think we need to import the whole kernel tree into CVS, at least
> for ruby: i am now touching files in include/linux, drivers/char and
> will add stuff to Documentation soon.  

So am I. The whole tree. Thats alot to keep in sync with 2.4.X. We can of
course. Right now the kernel (2.3.99-pre2) is still rapidly chaning so
it's not a good idea just yet.

> There is BTW no need to check out
> the whole tree: you can tell cvs to make a diff in the repository and
> only transfer the diff-file.  Makes it easy for us to automatically create
> snapshot patches too. What do you think about this?

Thats really nice :) I'm not a CVS guru so how do you go about doing
that. 

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