From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 01:13:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA05754 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA05744; Mon, 12 May 1997 01:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA05876; Mon, 12 May 1997 17:41:29 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705120811.RAA05876@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit In-Reply-To: <199705070637.IAA05436@sos.freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "May 7, 97 08:37:54 am" To: sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:41:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rhh@ct.picker.com, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Søren Schmidt stands accused of saying: > > > > Currently, I am leaning towards having it disappear on any keypress. > > That one is easy :) Yeah. I think that it should go away and never come back, TBH. Bringing it back is a PITA; having it volatile means that I can follow Bruce's suggestion of having it loaded by the bootstrap, unpacked into display memory and then completely ignored. > > There's some provision for palette rotation already; the real problem is > > just arranging for the rotation on a useful basis - the console driver > > only runs when text is output, so colours would only shift during > > character output (not a bad idea though). > > No, the redraw rutine runs periodically even if there is no output (it > just doesn't do anything), this can be used for animation 20 steps > (IIRC) a second. There can be no animation during the probe fase (or > atleast just a little) as the system timers aren't running yet.. Sorry, I meant that during the probe phase the driver only ran while text was being output. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[