linux-kernel - Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

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Message-Id: <1178061509.4606.27.camel@daplas>
Date:	Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:29 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> > 

> And yes, I'm literally talking about the *text* modes. Not all of us want 
> to have fbcon built in - I prefer my text-mode lean and mean and fast as 
> hell, and if I want a frame buffer, I'll take X11, thank you very much.
> 

I would agree with the lean and mean, but faster, that's another
question.  Even vesafb at 640x480-8 with ypan and mtrr is 30% faster
than vgacon (And for those of you with vesafb that cannot ypan, try
vgacon with the 'no-scroll' option for a more apple-to-apple
comparison).  And with chipset-specific drivers, it can be as much as 3x
faster than vgacon.

Anyway, my default console is still text mode, even though I'm the
framebuffer maintainer :-)

Tony


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