On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 15:03 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > I'll respin based on your other comments some time this or next week, > > let me know if there's any other low hanging fruit in that area that I > > can take care of while I'm at it. > > One thing I've planed to do is rewrite text mode rendering. There are > some helpers for that in ui/qemu-pixman.c. They are used by the qemu > text console today (i.e. "-chardev vc" + Ctrl-Alt-$nr console switching, > see ui/console.c). In theory these helpers should work as-is for vga > text mode rendering too, allowing to zap a whole bunch of glyph drawing > code from vga.c. > > Not sure how low hanging that actually is though ...
That might be a bit more than I'm willing to swallow right now :-) I'm actually quite busy otherwise... anyway, I'll have a quick look just in case but don't get your hopes too high up on that one. Let me know if you find a test case for the cirrus HW cursor, I'll have a look at older X DDX on my side, or some other OS that might make use of it (I tried Haiku but that didn't seem to have a problem so I suspect they just do standard VESA). Cheers, Ben.
