Subject: Re: rasops "attr"
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/23/2005 14:55:19
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Hello,

> > The drivers mentioned above just allocate one big block of
> > num_chars*(sizeof(long)+sizeof(u_int))
>=20
> That's probably a waste. The driver could use its internal
> types here. Both attributes and character codes are opaque
> to the wsdisplay layer.

Ok, I didn't read the whole wscons source so I wasn't sure about
opacity. I guess my drivers will eventually switch to 16 or 32 bit
attributes then, on a bitmapped display flags don't make too much sense,
two colours are usually enough.

have fun
Michael

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