On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:18:33AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > There are probably more points that I forgot now,
Oh, yeah, the exact data format of the mmap'able area. We need to store the character value and the attributes (bold, color etc). We can settle on some common attributes, and leave it to the display driver to deal with them, maybe the attributes even fit into a byte. However, for the character value, we should store the UCS-4, eg wide chars. The basic questions here are: Interleave the data (as we don't need 32 bits for the attribute we face alignments issues) or keep it in seperate "planes" (a bit evil when extending/truncating the scrollback buffer). And what about endianess of the data? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
