Re: Creator/Creator3D changes

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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?

Eduardo