Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267251AbUIJIgt (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:36:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267303AbUIJIgs (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:36:48 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.61]:38276 "EHLO smtp-out.hotpop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267251AbUIJIeO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:34:14 -0400 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Fbdev development list Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:35:25 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Antonino Daplas , Linux Kernel list , Andrew Morton References: <1094783022.2667.106.camel@gaston> <1094796002.14398.118.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409101635.25738.adaplas@hotpop.com> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 30 On Friday 10 September 2004 16:07, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I submited a patch moving offb to the bottom of the Makefile to at > > least restore normal drivers. For ofonly, a bit more hackish, but > > Just in case they aren't, vesafb and vga16fb should also be at the bottom, > cfr. the old order in fbmem.c. > They are, with vfb at the very last. > > what about failing register_framebuffer for anything but offb ? > > Humm, indeed hackerish... > > But the advantage of this is that we can finally exercise the failure path > of many frame buffer device drivers in the wild ;-) > Assuming, as I've mentioned in another thread, that info->fix.name == to video=xxxfb. Tony - 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/