Subject: Re: First snapshot of graphics mode console driver available
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/28/2001 13:08:46
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:34:57PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:54:39 +0900
>     From:        Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
>     Message-ID:  <3A73EC5F.E9B29EBC@mogua.org>
> 
>   | I don't think anybody would get bored with 0.5 second delay every 350
> 
> I think you missed the point...  It isn't the boredom of the human that
> matters, but what the system could otherwise be doing with the CPU time.
> 
> That is, I doubt that Ignatios wants a 5 millisecond pause in his 6bone
> routing every time the screen decides to scroll a line.

Exactly. Well, actually I doubt that in my case it will matter, but if I
actually add filter rules on that machine it might.

I wonder how difficult it would be to fall back to text VGA mode for ASCII
consoles. At least as a compile time (kernel configuration) option.

Regards,
	-is