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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:44:25 +0300
From: Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Fbdev 2.5.49 BK fixes.
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:07PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
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> > > Hm. Strange. It should work. Can you get serial console working?=20
> >=20
> > Forgot to mention, I've seen message:
> > 	fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
> > in /var/log/dmesg.=20
> >=20
> > I found this printk() in fbcon_setup(), but i can't even imagine=20
> > why it happens.
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> Perfect. I found the problem and I'm about to commit to BK. I posted the=
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> latest patch against 2.5.49 at
>
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> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
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I see some harmless crap slipped into the patch again :))

Add these file into /home/jsimmons/dontdiff:
	vmlinux.lds.s
	gen_init_cpio
	initramfs_data.cpio.gz

I'll test the patch this eveninig.

> > I understand this situation perfectly, looks like it's almost common for
> > developers working in "not so importatnt for servers" subsystems :(
>=20
> :-( Some day that attitude will change.
>=20

Lets hope so.

> P.S
>=20
>     Several drivers have been ported but not all. NVIDIA is still broken=
=20
> but I will fix it tonight.

I can test the fix on my riva128.

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Andrey Panin            | Embedded systems software developer
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