On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:27:57AM -0800, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

 > Given that frame buffer memory access tends to be significantly slower
 > than regular memory access, it may make sense to re-render the text
 > into the new frame buffer location rather than do a frame-buffer to
 > frame-buffer copy.

That requires storing the character cells somewhere.  Now, this is arguably
the right thing to do (as it would give us virtual terminal support on ALL
framebuffers) -- Roland Dowdeswell was going to work on this, but I think
his job got in the way...

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>