On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> You are kidding me, right?We already have the framebuffer device, so why
> in hell did you develop your own kernel interface?That's ridiculous!
* fbdev is experimental.
* fbdev drivers are complicated. I wrote the svgalib nv3 driver in a
day. The fbdev nv3 driver still does not work correctly for most users
after more than a year. Similar for the mach64 (rage) driver.
* fbdev is not useful for my purposes (console switching is disabled
when the fb device is opened).
* When I'm in console I want text mode, for its great advantage - speed.
* fbdev puts in the kernel unnecessary stuff - acceleration.
Don't get me wrong, I like fbdev, and think that it might be very useful
in the future. But now it is not (for me) right now, and svgalib is.
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