Subject: Re: PX/PXG driver - update
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/01/1999 10:04:17
> I've done a little more work on the driver. I think it should use it's
> own font, since I just tried the ``gallant'' font (from wscons_rfont.h)
> and it seems that the bits are ordered right-to-left from the card's point
> of view. Re-orienting them on the fly would be expensive (does 
> anybody feel that it's a nessacary evil?). Using a 256-byte lookup table
> we could probably do it in 4 lines of code.

Since WSCONS does bit reversing burden upon initialition anyway having
'gallant19' would bring no further penalty given WSCONS-enabled
NetBSD/pmax kernel. 

Tohru Nishimura
Information Technology Centre
Nara Institute of Science and Technology