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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:04:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On 20 Feb 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 11:58, James Simmons wrote:
> > > (3) persuade me that I want to write matroxcon and forget about fbcon at all, or
> > 
> > This is the best solution. 

Huh?

> And then we will have sbuscon as well, thus two places where
> putcs() is necessary.
> 
> I don't understand, but I do hope that at some point it will be
> realized that maybe allowing fbcon to generically handle putcs()
> hardware is beneficial.
> 
> I can dream. :-)

Don't worry, tile blitting will be there (eventually)...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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