Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] unified accerated interface

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > You can also extend fbtest to use the ioctl()s when they are available (how to
> > find out?).
> 
> Well, if you use the latest Ruby they are available :-)
> 
> It's just a standard wrapper around mandatory functions, in fbmem.c
> If the #define exist in the header fb.h, they are there...
> 
> They can't be added to 2.2/2.4, because they need the pixel-based
> functions, 2.2/2.4 accel is cell-based only.

Do you really have to implement the pixel-based functions for all possible
values? E.g. for mfb, afb and ilbm it's quite complex, and the console driver
doesn't really need it. That's why we have the support for width field for the
cell-based operations.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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