Subject: Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>
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On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 09:07, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Can you point me to these reports?
> I tested with a couple chipsets here and didn't find any problems.

I'll take a dig. The ones I've got are for 2.4 so relate to old code.

> We could check for the kernel version. This could be done during build
> time - assuming we don't ship generic binaries or during run time if we
> want to provide binaries that work everywhere.
> In reality the former would be sufficient for a lot of cases - especially
> for vendor supplied binaries.

The former would be a disaster for Fedora for example - we ship
'current' kernels and having kernel upgrades require a new X11 won't
endear users . A runtime check on version might work I was wondering if
it would be better to have an actual interface that said "do/do not
restore the extra bits in kernel".

That also avoids any suprises and regressions ?

> Anyway, would my patch be acceptable for the kernel?

I'm not video maintainer but other than the detection question it looks
sensible to me.

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