Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263453AbTIIIzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263477AbTIIIzg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:55:36 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:22506 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263453AbTIIIzf (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 04:55:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:54:00 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Petr Vandrovec cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Development , cheapisp@sensewave.com, Linux Frame Buffer Device Development Subject: Re: hi-res fb console with 2.6.0-testX ? In-Reply-To: <20030908223814.GA4495@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1714 Lines: 43 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > And whole fb subsystem changed semantic, so do not build both > > > vesafb & matroxfb into the kernel - either one or another, or > > > you'll be definitely surprised what will happen (and I'm almost > > > sure that blank screen is not what you want). > > > > What's wrong with the resource system that prevents this from working? > > vesafb ignore failures... for framebuffer it just prints warning only, and > for 0x3C0 region it just completely ignores warning (due to vgacon > clash). But it should not be serious, user should just get console > on matroxfb, and vesafb on /dev/fb1 doing nothing. OK. > Main thing which prevents this from working as users expects is that > modular fbdevs cannot be used by fbcon. So people cannot create > initrd scripts which load proper fbdev driver anymore, after detecting > hardware and making sure that hardware & user wishes & driver are > compatible. They now have to build fbdevs to the kernel, and hope for > the best... Ugh, didn't know that... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/