Re: status

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:04, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Any patches in the meantime?  I have a few changes I can pass to you:
> 
> Yes of course!!!!
> 
I mean, do you have patches against vanilla linux?  I currently don't
have bk right now.  I browsed the bk repository, and it seems you made a
lot of changes.

> > 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.
I can, but against 2.5.48 only + your old fbdev.diff.  You might have a
hard time merging it to your repository.

>  
> > 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?
> 
I don't know, gen_cursor?

Tony