Want console message spew [Re: qi-update-README.patch]

Graeme Gregory graeme at openmoko.org
Tue Nov 25 16:39:10 CET 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:02 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
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> Werner Almesberger wrote:
> > Andy Green wrote:
> >> This definitely is useful if you have a panic or other serious trouble
> >> and no debug board, but if you're working OK it just slows boot down.
> > 
> > Harald once mentioned that he may Glamo-accelerate the text console.
> > 
> > (I once tried to put Xglamo's block copy code into the kernel but
> > failed miserably. So it's not as easy as it seemed. Unfortunately,
> > I lost my patch as well :-( )
> > 
> > Maybe we'll eventually get something that makes console speed a bit
> > less retro ...
> 
> Yes Graeme is doing an xorg driver for Glamo now, locking got discussed
> as something that needs to be on kernel-side to match framebuffer -- as
> did interrupt driven completion of accelerated operations which means
> kernelside too.  So maybe this will come.
> 
It looks like there is a community team building interested in OpenGL ES
support for the glamo as well. So I suspect they will have to mess in
the kernel for DRI like interface as well. So I suspect if this actually
gets off the ground some generic glamo access via kernel will certainly
get implemented.

Graeme





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