On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:07:24PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:

 > The VGA raster driver will be much faster if it is written to use 
 > functionality of accelarated graphics cards:
 > 
 > 	- a few MB linear framebuffer. Currently it's suffering from 
 > 	  tiny 64kB framebuffer (due to poor PC design?).
 > 	- 32-bit memcpy or bitblt. The design of standard VGA also 
 > 	  limits most display memory operation to byte length (8-bit).

It would be good to add support for specific cards ... you can easily
do this with the autoconfig infrastructure.

For example, you could have a vga at pci, which matches the VGA device
with priority "1", and an sthreevga at pci which matches S3 cards
with priority "10".

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