Re: development of framebuffer driver hi res console

    0n Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:19:43AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: 

    >On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:46 +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
    >> On 2008-05-16 19:15:19 (+0800), ketracel <ketracel_at_internode.on.net> wrote:
    >> > Any FreeBSD developers out there working on a Framebuffer driver which
    >> > provides modern high resolution modes (including widescreen) for the system
    >> > console?
    >> 
    >> Not specifically working on a high-res framebuffer, but I'm working on
    >> divorcing the framebuffer from syscons.  Once that work is done, it should be
    >> possible to write more "advanced" framebuffer drivers.
    >
    >And the graphics developers are already porting their drivers to the
    >kernel to provide the framebuffer part.  What it would take to port that
    >to FreeBSD has been outlined elsewhere.

Can someone actually define what is meant as "framebuffer" as opposed to VESA ?

I have physically seen OSs such as gentoo that have a framebuffer (pretty
consoles) but I have never ever known what a "framebuffer" is in the context of
VTYs.

Anyone care to post a nutshell summary ?

 -aW

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