Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 7/7] fbdev: Add Tile Blitting support

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> --- linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4-orig/drivers/video/Kconfig	2004-09-10 04:43:22.834414192 +0800
> +++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm4/drivers/video/Kconfig	2004-09-10 05:01:35.555295368 +0800
> @@ -49,6 +49,24 @@ config FB_MODE_HELPERS
>  	  your driver does not take advantage of this feature, choosing Y will
>  	  just increase the kernel size by about 5K.
>
> +config FB_TILEBLITTING
> +       bool "Enable Tile Blitting Support"
> +       depends on FB
> +       default n
> +       ---help---
> +         This enables tile blitting.  Tile blitting is a drawing technique
> +	 where the screen is divided into rectangular sections (tiles), whereas
> +	 the standard blitting divides the screen into pixels. Because the
> +	 default drawing element is a tile, drawing functions will be passed
> +	 parameters in terms of number of tiles instead of number of pixels.
> +	 For example, to draw a single character, instead of using bitmaps,
> +	 an index to an array of bitmaps will be used.  To clear or move a
> +	 rectangular section of a screen, the rectangle willbe described in
                                                        ^^^^^^
							will be
> +	 terms of number of tiles in the x- and y-axis.
> +
> +	 This is particularly important to one driver, the matroxfb.  If
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
						       matroxfb?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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