Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdv/fbcon pending problems

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Otto Solares wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:21:39AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > > On the other side i see a lot of effort in the fbdev acceleration,
> > > it is nice but that effort should be better spent on fixing the layer,
> > > imo, the only user for acceleration is fbcon, any userland app that
> > > use fbdev disables that acceleration so it can map the vmem and ioregs,
> > > and do it's own voodoo if it wants acceleration.  That acceleration
> > > is not "exported" to user space.  I am working in a open source project
> > > that uses mesa-solo with fbdev and many limitations from the layer
> > > itself have been seen.
> >
> > That is true so far for fillrect and copyarea functions. Imageblit will be
> > used for read and writes on /dev/fbX. Also it is used for software
> > cursors.
>
> But if acceleration is not disabled you can't map the vmem and io regions.

I don't expect an app that mmap()s mmio to read/write from /dev/fb* at the same
time. So I see no problem disabling accelerated read/write while mmio is
mapped.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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