Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267864AbUJONtq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267856AbUJONrR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:47:17 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:7119 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267777AbUJONmQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:42:16 -0400 Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? From: Alan Cox To: Kendall Bennett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <416E8322.25700.29ACC2F1@localhost> References: <2PjiW-3hl-21@gated-at.bofh.it> (Kendall Bennett's message of "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:20:10 +0200") <416E8322.25700.29ACC2F1@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097843969.9863.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:39:33 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 16 On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 21:46, Kendall Bennett wrote: > a way to spawn a user mode process that early in the boot sequence (it > would have to come from the initrd image I expect) then the only option > is to compile it into the kernel. There is exactly that in 2.6 - the hotplug interfaces allow the kernel to fire off userspace programs. Jon Smirl (who you should definitely talk to about this stuff) has been hammering out a design for moving almost all the mode switching into user space for kernel video. - 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/