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

Hi!

  After a weekend of bug fixing several little annoying bugs have been
fixed. Hardware scroll regions (for moving a section of the screen
around) have bene implemented. In fbcon all 3 accelerated functions are now
in use. This means I have started software accel function testing. Once I
have removed those bugs we can use them to get VESA fb going. People are
welcomed to test it out. I don't think cfbimgblt.c compiles.

TODO:

1) Implement software emulated accel functions (in the works)

2) Implement screen resizing. Needed for take_over_console and resizing
   the VC.

3) Fix cursor handling.

4) Implement whole screen scrolling in hardware. Also take advantage of
   the scrollback for several drivers that don't have the video memory
   to implement hardware scrolling.

5) Add font handling to fbcon again.

6) Unicode cleanup. Playing around with the console system I have found
   even the current console implementation very broken when it comes to
   unicode support :-(

MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

James Simmons  [jsi...@li...]               ____/|
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