Amiga support and xc/programs/Xserver/ilbm / was: Re: Deadcode:programs/Xserver/iplan2p[248]

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Mon Oct 4 19:36:56 PDT 2004


Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> On Monday 04 October 2004 21:36, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > BTW: There may be an interesting usage for the ILBM code: What about
> > adding ILBM support to the Xvfb server to have one non-standard
> > framebuffer type supported there ?
> 
> I can't see any value in doing that.  What's the point of supporting a virtual
> framebuffer type that doesn't correspond to anything implemented in any
> driver? afb at least gets used on real hardware.

It was just a theoretical idea to find some usage for that code... :)
... but then... the AFB code seems to have more or less the same
functioanlity so lets wait for any comments from the author
(geert at linux-m68k.org) ...

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Bye,
Roland

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