Re: Please test: New TGA Framebuffer Driver

Martin Lucina (mato@kotelna.sk)
Wed, 19 May 1999 01:05:31 +0200


On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:50:24PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:

> It's being called from fbcon_cfb8_bmove. (Incidentally, can you shed any
> light on the reason that fbcon uses 'mymemmove' instead of just 'memmove'?
> There's a comment in <video/fbcon.h> about it.)

I think the reason for this is so that fbcon can use it's own optimised version
of memmove different from the kernel one (and therefore faster, that is if an
alpha one existed).

> So someone just needs to write lib/arch/alpha/memmove.S. Cc'd to
> linux-kernel in case someone has time on their hands.

Or mymemmove(). Yes please!

mato

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