Subject: Re: A small patch
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/20/1999 11:37:37
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	I think Andy Doran has been doing a lot of work with rcons - IIRC
> 	hes pretty busy right now, but if he gets a chance maybe he can
> 	comment on any possible speedups...

Hi David :)

> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> 
> [ stuff about raster consoles ]
> 
> Mark already has some code that him and I wrote for 'glueing' a wscons
> rcons onto a flat mainbus framebuffer. The problem we see with it is
> that the rcons in wscons is appaulingly slow, which is why changeover
> has not yet happened. I heard there was rumor of a faster rcons
> appearing, but I don't know whether or not this actually happened.

Take a look at sys/dev/rasops - you'll be happy to know that it's a lot
faster than the stuff in sys/dev/rcons/raster_op.c. Feel free to ask if
you'd like to know anything.

- ad