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Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3: FBDEV: VGA State Save/Restore
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From: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 05:53, James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > Only the structure definition of fb_vgastate is in fb.h.  For drivers
> > without a vga core, they'll just won't link to it and it won't be
> > compiled.  Plus, vga.h is not a common header (not located in
> > include/asm or include/linux) and it contains a lot of declarations and
> > definitions which are irrelevant to most drivers or are already
> > duplicated.  This will be messier, I think.  
> 
> I like to move vga.h to include/video. And yes I like to clean it up. The 
> reason is I like to implement the function in vga.h and some in vgastate 
> into vgacon.c. It would be nice if vgacon could support different hardware 
> states per VC instead of changing every virtual console for everything. 
> The other dream is I like to see vgacon become firmware independent. 
> 
OK.

Tony

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