On Oct 7 2007 17:23, Alan Cox wrote:
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>>>- If you want to do "pretty" boot up you do it in X or frame buffer
>>>(which is going to get easier and easier with the X shift to kernel side
>>>video support)
>> 
>> fb is slow. Feels like a 9600bps serial line.
>
>So fix your fb. There is enough information to cover 2D scrolling for
>most modern cards now.
>
>> Let everyone have his own fun.
>
>The point isn't to put everyones "fun" into the kernel, or by now it
>would have become a steaming heap.

We do have a steaming heap of obscure hardware drivers, actually.
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