From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 18 13:24:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02334 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02292; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:23:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA20678; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:23:36 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA06856; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:23:06 +0100 Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.7.5/8.7.3-fasterix-960828) id VAA18042; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:42:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970218214241.GQ48138@@> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:42:41 +0100 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac) To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net, jdc@xinside.com, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns References: <199702180500.VAA00752@lightside.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199702180500.VAA00752@lightside.com>; from Jake Hamby on Feb 17, 1997 21:00:50 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jake Hamby writes: > > Thanks for the suggestions though. It would certainly make our lives > > simpler if everyone was happy with plain framebuffer performance! > > Having seen the Sun console frame buffer on the older SPARCstations (like > the SPARCstation 2), I am absolutely positive you don't want that on the PC! I tend to agree... However it could be much faster on the PC than it is on the Sun (since we don't have to use FORTH to handle it). But it's not worth the trouble, IMHO. The extended width VGA text modes are enough. > The problem with the Sun console, that Jeremy didn't mention, is that the > frame buffer doesn't actually have a built-in text mode, like VGA cards do. Actually, I've recently been told that the Sun framebuffer _has_ a much faster built-in text mode and it is used by Linux/SPARC. I haven't seen it myself (I'm not sure if it's a real text mode, maybe they just reimplemented bitmap characters in C). -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.fr.net pb@fasterix.freenix.fr {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org