Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267926AbUJOPfs (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:35:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268040AbUJOPfs (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:35:48 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21199 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267926AbUJOPfp (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:35:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: KendallB@scitechsoft.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <2Pkf0-42m-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <2PncW-6j9-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <2PncW-6j9-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030401205016$5cc4@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030401205016$63f7@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030424075011$4028@gated-at.bofh.it> <1ewKr-2Kh-41@gated-at.bofh.it> <1bucs-57R-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <2PncW-6j9-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030423094012$4166@gated-at.bofh.it> <2PncW-6j9-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <2PAMY-7Ir-21@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097850784.9857.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:33:05 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 19 On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 15:22, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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. > > The problem is that this would imply that the console would only > work after user space is running. Even with initrd that's quite late. It doesn't imply this at all. You set an initial mode with the BIOS during boot up. When your initrd runs you gain the ability to flip mode and do cool stuff - arguably it doesn't even need to be in initrd. - 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/