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Re: Where arch/bebox/pci/pfb.c?



root%garbled.net@localhost wrote:

> I deleted it.  Mostly because it was a really old style framebuffer, and it
> just didn't look right to me at all.  It should still be in the attic, 
> however,
> I think the primary reason I got rid of it was that it was a pcvt console, and
> not a wscons console.  I think most of the pcvt stuff is gone, and it just
> didn't make sense to keep around.

pfb.c was an optional console support (than pcvt)
which included glue stuff to rasops and wscons:
>> device  pfb: wsemuldisplaydev, wsrasteremulops
>> attach  pfb at pci
>> file    arch/bebox/pci/pfb.c            pfb needs-flag

It used linear VGA framebuffer memory initialized and mapped
by the firmware to skip board dependent initialization for
VGA mode 3, which was required by MI vga(4).

I.e. that was something like genfb, I think.
---
Izumi Tsutsui


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