Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932465AbWHOByQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:54:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751420AbWHOByQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:54:16 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:17908 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbWHOByP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:54:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=IQx8cwq2gAMZIq04Hj5GtVPnHuykW8pqTVofxwfpOzNhTSso9NA+yOGsk4dcy7bvshl2ULOzszqyntlQIUC4f13LnvVleGe5Mr29Lnuj+ZGo64fLxQNwERBdD67PJn1OJh0/QH4fZkkkH3/gd611td5Ny6bScn6vsugYkAIdWQI= Subject: Re: vga text console From: "Antonino A. Daplas" To: James C Georgas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1155606109.8131.13.camel@Rainsong> References: <1155604313.8131.4.camel@Rainsong> <1155604928.3948.8.camel@daplas.org> <1155605197.3948.10.camel@daplas.org> <1155606109.8131.13.camel@Rainsong> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:54:09 +0800 Message-Id: <1155606849.3948.17.camel@daplas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 31 On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:41 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:26 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:22 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:11 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > > > > I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel > > > > configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? > > > > > > You can't. It is always part of the kernel (for X86 at least). What's > > > your intention? > > I want to write my own VGA text console driver. > > > And correcting myself, you can configure out vgacon, but you have to > > define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, and undefine CONFIG_VT. > > > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? > It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or off. Tony - 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/