Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262391AbVCBSEo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:04:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262380AbVCBSCB (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:02:01 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.206]:3383 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262383AbVCBSBg (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:01:36 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=VActDiJDZRBFVcXcJkOleNKVvmm/C3oeAB1U8vqHpEU4k+H2OBdgg5dTRfHn1AheNnDQ0bdsK4UgIR/xm3KXjw33BhJ7bUQBC6BSFYxZB3cKGG9iLSOs9lewYA0ihpcLdZfeHTnqN4leaSlqH8eaEthnltJtJyVbAsLmSFuCSRo= Message-ID: <9e47339105030210012e98d658@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:01:33 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Paul Mundt , Adrian Bunk , adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers In-Reply-To: <20050302121744.GA2871@linux-sh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de> <20050302121744.GA2871@linux-sh.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 17 On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:44 +0200, Paul Mundt wrote: > 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. X86 people don't care because they have VGA (with all of it's warts). But that doesn't mean that VGA is a good thing. VGA lets X86 systems run without needing framebuffer support. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/