On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:31:14AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>  > > BTW, I think rasterconsole on VGA is fast enough. It had been used
>  > > on Japanese version MS-DOS about 7 years ago with ~25MHz 486.
>  > > It was actually faster than 20MHz 68030 ;-)
>  >
>  > 	A 25MHz 486 is a heavy amount of CPU compared to some NetBSD
>  > 	boxes - 16Mhz 68020 hp300s and sub MIP VAXstation IIs, both of
>  > 	which have graphics consoles, and should be able to benefit from
>  > 	this code.
>
> Huh?  The hp300 port already uses a graphics console, obviously, and
> vga-specific raster console code isn't going to affect how e.g. the
> hp300 displays characters.  (Most hp300 displays have hardware accel,
> BTW.)

	Eck - I was thinking about the multiple graphical consoles
	feature, rather than the vga scrolling issue, though designing
	the accelleation API should allow for non-PC hardware...

	Apologies for reducing the signal to noise on this one :)

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