Subject: Re: wscons support for various framebuffers (questions from NetBSD sparc newbie)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/28/2007 16:48:25
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hello,

On Feb 28, 2007, at 16:08, der Mouse wrote:

>> You can do that with XFree86 as well, they have a cg14 driver but for
>> lack of hardware I never tried it.
>
> Out of curiosity, does it do simultaneous 8bpp and 24bpp?

Maybe, maybe not - I didn't check. But somehow I doubt it.

> If not, it'll feel awfully slow.  (That's the major feature of my 
> xcg14, to my
> mind: 8bpp and 24bpp on the same screen.  24bpp without acceleration is
> pretty sluggish-feeling, even with an SS20 driving it, so I wanted to
> use it only when necessary.)

Hmm, doesn't the cg14 have at least some sort of blitter-like thingie? 
Is it so slow that nobody could be bothered or did just nobody care 
enough? I suspect the latter since the suncg6 driver was unaccelerated 
too, until I added the missing bits. And for its age the cg6's blitter 
is far from slow.

have fun
Michael
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin)

iQEVAwUBReX4qspnzkX8Yg2nAQJdjwgAnq4XLeKCknybReRoH62oDNvtCbRB0OGs
fnSABLFApXlcMqWkX4yzxqDKm93YqxhQNzHx+8xfwxIeaH3aCRNi/MAAAB9I8hlo
F9NtiBMOAnGP67j15VQie4TNu6DNAHPzserL9ZZIpxww4R/JkIHF6Ir14V5sdLta
LXnsPadebWY5In4G2gRjeSZXB2APS4YmCJSUVvHeH/aZGnrgu4JUFxYhpf7kRiEb
dDRuG2XkaL8CyUdQtCrlLa24ZlmSZ6jjq04x8pCXNpHltlSFTmMyB15tyVXg/83O
wmkVdLAD0TMKWvRfxgQgRPuXsU6UqpzJDoqbV2/XGCORnxf0tjuYcA==
=i9uw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----