> The X fbdev driver is going to make supporting a new fb ioctl pretty
> fun. It currently doesn't even support the existing fb ioctls and has a
> strange abstraction layer.
>
> I reckon writing a new X driver from scratch (or based on something like
> the vnc X driver) would be easier in the
Rusty Russell wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:16 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper mig
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:19 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Rectangles work just fine for a framebuffer console. They stop
> working
> > once you plan to run any graphical stuff such as an X-Server on top
> of
> > the framebuffer. Only way to get notified about changes is page
> faults,
> > i.
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:16 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
> > so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
> > This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be
> >
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be
the right approach here
Rectangles work just fi
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Hi,
Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be
the right approach here
Rectangles work just fi
Hi,
Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory,
so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory.
This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be
the right approach here
Rectangles work just fine for a framebuffer c
