Subject: Re: First snapshot of graphics mode console driver available
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/29/2001 19:51:59
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 
> In <3A75097F.2169EDB1@mogua.org>
> bjy@mogua.org wrote:
> 
> > > - It implicitly requires options PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, I removed all of "#ifdef PCDISPLAY_SOFTCURSOR"
> > from the source. Emulating blinking hardware cursor in graphics mode is
> > much harder to implement.
> 
> sys/dev/ic/pcdisplayvar.h (which is included by vga_pci.c) has it.
> Maybe "options PCDISPLAY_RASTERCONSOLE" (or something) is required
> to enable/disable this new feature.

I forgot to mention that pcdisplay dependancy was completely removed from
the cvs source which hasn't been released yet. So it should be called 
"VGA_RASTERCONSOLE", "VGA_GRAPHICSMODECONSOLE", or something. Any better 
idea?

> 
> BTW, I think rasterconsole on VGA is fast enough. It had been used
> on Japanese version MS-DOS about 7 years ago with ~25MHz 486.
> It was actually faster than 20MHz 68030 ;-)

Current version as of this writing is slightly faster (about 10%) than 
released snapshots. There's still some space for improvement.

Jun-Young

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