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From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list 
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: FBdev updates.
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:58:31 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302201951270.20350-100000@phoenix.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220182941.GK14445@vana.vc.cvut.cz>


> I was for five weeks in U.S., so I did not do anything with
> matroxfb during that time. I plan to use fillrect and copyrect
> from generic code 

I have ported the accelerated functions to the new api. What is left is to 
deal with the loadfont and putcs issue which I'm working on the code right 
now.

> (although it means unnecessary multiply on
> generic side, and division in matroxfb, 

????

> but well, if we gave
> up on reasonable speed for fbdev long ago...). 

This is not true. Several benchmarks have shown a large performance 
improvement in 2.5.X.

> But I simply
> want loadfont and putcs hooks for character painting. And if 
> fbdev maintainer does not want to give me them, well, then 
> matroxfb and fbdev are not compatible.

Working on it. I starting with Tony's tileblit patch but I plan to expand 
it even more i.e texture maps to draw fonts.
 
> (3) persuade me that I want to write matroxcon and forget about fbcon at all, or

This is the best solution. 

> Besides that with that strange additional copy in accel_putcs
> I get much slower output than with 2.4.x... and although I

Again not true.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20  1:09 FBdev updates James Simmons
2003-02-20  1:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-20  1:22   ` James Simmons
2003-02-20 15:02 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-20 15:07   ` James Simmons
2003-02-20 18:29   ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-02-20 19:03     ` Jurriaan
2003-02-20 19:58     ` James Simmons [this message]
2003-02-20 22:00       ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino Daplas
2003-02-21  9:09         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-21 10:46           ` Antonino Daplas
2003-02-21 11:02             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-21  1:45       ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21  9:04         ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-21  0:24     ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-03 20:35       ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-03 21:25         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-03-03 21:32         ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-05 20:23           ` James Simmons
2003-03-06  1:18             ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-04 21:29         ` Jurriaan
2003-03-04 21:46           ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-09 21:29           ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-09 22:27             ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-09 22:54               ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-09 23:44                 ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-11 15:31             ` James Simmons
2003-03-05 20:22         ` James Simmons
2003-03-06  7:35           ` Sven Luther
2003-03-06  8:05             ` Antonino Daplas
2003-03-06  8:25               ` Sven Luther
2003-03-28 14:19         ` 2.5.66 fbdev performance (was Re: Re: FBdev updates) Petr Vandrovec
2003-03-28 18:50           ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino Daplas
2003-02-20 15:10 ` FBdev updates Ivan Kokshaysky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-14 19:54 FBDEV updates James Simmons
2003-08-14 20:36 ` Otto Solares
2003-08-14 20:52   ` James Simmons
2003-08-15  8:40     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-08-15 22:31       ` James Simmons
2003-08-15 23:42         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-08-16  2:40           ` Otto Solares
2003-08-14 23:16   ` Greg KH
2003-08-15 22:37     ` James Simmons
2003-08-15 23:54       ` Greg KH
2003-08-16  6:01 ` Sven Schnelle
2003-02-20  1:40 FBdev updates Lawrence Lee (Shanghai)
2002-06-18 20:16 fbdev updates James Simmons
2002-06-18 20:22 ` Larry McVoy
2002-06-05 16:39 James Simmons
2002-06-05 16:50 ` Russell King

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