Re: In-kernel graphics subsystem

[rep stsb]

--- Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:


> Wouldn't it make more sense to extend the current
> framebuffer driver
> support to support v-sync? (framebuffers are already
> in the kernel, and
> there were so many security holes with svgalib-based
> programs that it left
> a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths)

I am presently wounded and cannot do either until I
heal.

> And having gotten a v-sync interrupt, what would you
> *do* with it?
> You'll need an API here....

svgalib has a vga_waitrefresh() function. It can be
implemented as a block on, either a ioctl or a read,
on a kernel-space driver, or by polling.

mihai cartoaje


	

	
		
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