Re: [linux-fbdev] Is a FontCache worth implementing ?

[Romain D. <do...@ir...>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:

> mostly you do expand a bitmap so that all 1s become the foreground color and
> all 0s are either transparent or background color. look at writebitmap and
> cpu2screencolor expansion code in the glint driver. I cannot say more about
> it.

Maybe it won't be needed to tell in the near future :-) :-)

> mmm, i hope you luck on this.

Thanks, maybe it helped :-)

> Well, yes they work nicely on high resolution fbdevs, try reading 8x8 fonts on
> resolutions above 1024x768 on a 15" monitor ...

1024x768 15" is my setup, and 8x8 font are readable IHMO. Not
comfortable,
but I can read them without much effort...

> glyph should bring that donw to 4 32 bit register writes, and 2 for 8x8 fonts.

that would be a win...

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