Re: [linux-fbdev] New api again

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

Thanks for the bitplanes info. I'm going to figure out some routines to
do a rectfill, copyarea, and a imageblit.

> > Yes but for the standard packed pixel non accelerated graphics cards we
> > have cfbrectfill, cfbcopyarea, and cfbimageblit to use. If the driver
> > doesn't provide these functions then we use these cfb* functions. I even
> > stored each function in a seperate file just in case we run into cards
> > that support one or two of the three accelerated functions.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to let the driver always fill in the pointers, even if it
> needs the cfb* ops?

The reason I was thinking this was just in case we end up with ioctls for
these 3 accel functions. We wouldn't want userland to be able to call them
if they could be done in userland using software emulation.