Re: Creator/Creator3D changes

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 22, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Eduardo Horvath wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Michael wrote:
>
> > yesterday I committed a bunch of changes to the ffb driver to  
> > implement
> > hardware acceleration for character drawing etc. so we don't have  
> > to access
> > the framebuffer anymore. While there I noticed that the driver does  
> > an awful
> > lot of syncing which on my ffb2+ is unnecessary. According to the
> > documentation font drawing operations could interfere with blitter  
> > operations
> > but I found no evidence of that. Also, the documentation says  
> > nothing about
> > writes to the font data register being pipelined or not - so far my  
> > 450MHz
> > US-IIs failed to make it overflow.
> > That said, if you have an old pre-ffb2 Creator or Creator3D please  
> > check if
> > there are any weird side effects. If you see any they should go  
> > away when you
> > put
> > options FFB_SYNC
> > into your kernel config.
>
> Does this affect X, wscons, or both?

Only wscons - X has its own driver.

have fun
Michael
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