A general question on framebuffers

From: Bob Alexander (bob_at_ngi.it)
Date: 01/30/05

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    After having tamed the horrible ACPI power drain while sleeping, mostly
    patching quite a few things in the radeonfb code I discovered that the
    bootsplash code will currently work with another framebuffer (vesafb
    16bit color).

    My questions are:

    1) what are the advantages of an hw specific framebuffer such as
    radeonfb as opposed to a more generic vesafb ?

    2) Other than embellishing my boot screen with penguins and their
    brethrens what other benefits come from using a framebuffer ?

    3) Is is likely that if I stop using framebuffers altogether the ACPI
    sleep will have less problems and therefore could use kernels with less
    patches ?

    Thank you,
    Bob 

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