Alan Grimes <alangrimes at starpower.net> wrote:

> In persuit of my linear-framebuffer effort, I realized I needed to know 
> alot more about squeak primatives with the intent of gaining a better 
> understanding of what the VM expects of any display driver...
> 
> I hit the swiki with that question and found this rather amusing page 
> from 1999: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/603
eek; for a start it should be primitives not primatives.
Second, why do you think you need to make primitives for handling a
framebuffer? Code to make use of /dev/fb (and I suspect several
variants) has already been written by several people so you'd probably
be best off finding a copy. I can't remember the names but a search of
the archives must surely find some pointers. I did a really simple
version for the DEC Itsy several years ago and at least two people asked
for copies over time.

tim

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