On Thu Apr 12 17:22:53 EDT 2012, [email protected] wrote: > just the very wide ones will degrade to uncompressed > format. the alternative would be changing devdraw > to accept infinitely long draw rpcs split over multiple > writes. would require changes in drawterm, inferno, 9vx > plan9... doesnt seem worth the trouble.
64kb would seem a big enough limit for nearly anything today. that would allow for 32bpp images up to 16384 pixels wide if uncompressed. so why not just make the iounit bigger? also, libdraw shouldn't be making decisions about how wide is too wide. it should delegate to the device. - erik
