Subject: Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 14:28, Egbert Eich wrote:
> I'm fully aware that in the long run we will need to look into a new 
> driver model for graphics where no two instances fight over who gets
> register access. However such a model won't be created nor will we get 
> the majority of the drivers ported over night.
> Therefore we need to find an interim solution for the most pressing 
> problems.

This doesn't appear to work as a solution because the functionality
changes won't be in all the existing kernel, and also because the kernel
font save has a couple of bugs reported against it with regards to
saving the right data that might need looking at anyway.

It seems it would be neccessary for X to have a way to know whether the
feature is present.

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