Is a FontCache worth implementing?

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

>Err, i was speaking of userland accelerated mesa support, not openGL in
>fbdev, which i know will not be welcome in the kernel.

You don't need it in the kernel. Before DRI I hacked Mesa to use fbdev.
Sure it is slow but it sure was faster than X with no acceleration.

>I may be wrong, but i had the impression that it is not sane us to do DMA
>without speaking to DRM about it.
>
>That said, maybe using DMA is not the nicest thing to do, maybe it is
>wastefull for us, ...

But unfortunely it is needed for specific types of cards. DMA can be done
internally. It is just a matter of making sure the console system is
shutdown when KD_GRAPHICS is set. This way their is no conflict.


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