Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262276AbVCBMSA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:18:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262278AbVCBMSA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:18:00 -0500 Received: from smtp2.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.35]:45496 "EHLO smtp2.pp.htv.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262276AbVCBMRp (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:17:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:44 +0200 From: Paul Mundt To: Adrian Bunk Cc: adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Message-ID: <20050302121744.GA2871@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Adrian Bunk , adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 40 --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:41:18AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Do modular framebuffers really make sense? >=20 Yes, at least these are quite common with embedded systems, quite often without fbcon. It makes little sense to keep the driver constantly loaded if the device is not being used as a console and is only seeing occasional use. It seems more sensible to just fix up the drivers that don't do this right.. most of the broken drivers seem to be geared at x86 anyways where people generally don't seem to care. It may not make a lot of sense with distributions on x86, though it is useful if you are doing driver development on a secondary device. This is certainly a corner case though. --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJa7o1K+teJFxZ9wRAmzXAKCGjNhPV3QJclqFGwKkOofuc6U2uQCdHAbt Qka7Zg9YoBwLEQZNVPMTgP4= =zZ2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o-- - 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/