From: Tristan Wibberley <twibberley@llamacom.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:40:22 +0000

Re: kgi vs. fbcon

mentalg@geocities.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> >  I was thinking a bit about this too. Wouldn't it be possible to add a
> > /dev/graphic like the old kgi device that used fbcon/kgicon to set modes
> > etc.  This way people could get the benefits of the kgi way even when
> > they are using fbcon.
> 
> I don't think it needs to be that complex. the /dev/graphic* (or I think
> /dev/ttyfb*) devices would behave exactly like /dev/fb*, except with the
> addition of blanking/unmmapping to take away access to the fb device through
> that device when the associated VC is switched away.
> 
> for instance:
> 
> /dev/ttyfb1 - basically the same as whatever /dev/fb* device is
>               associated with /dev/tty1 -- only, with the additional

That'll be difficult to get accepted (I wouldn't). TTY stands for
teletype, and a teletype machine doesn't have *any*thing to do with
framebuffers, so no association can really be made. A tty device *is* a
teletype or a teletype emulator.

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