Re: status

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

> Any patches in the meantime?  I have a few changes I can pass to you:

Yes of course!!!!

> 1. optimized putcs to speed up scrolling by 2-3x.  (it's a small patch
> but it already outperforms fb-2.4 especially at high color depths).
> Compared with the previous patch I submitted, this change is
> non-intrusive, so no other changes are required.
>
> 2. vga16fb imageblit that supports drawing of the penguin (vga-4-planes
> only)
> 
> 3. logo drawing for directcolor visuals.

Please send me those patches ASAP!!! I will linclude them right away.
 
> The above should complete softaccel support for most hardware except for
> the more esoteric ones (mostly authored by Geert).

Geert is busy porting the Amigia driver to the new api. That means all the 
ilbm, iplan stuff will go away :-) 

> Also cfbcursor is a bit misleading, no?  It implies support for
> packed-pixels only, but I already  use it with vga16fb.

OOps. You are right. What should we call it?