Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763576AbXIKLyM (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:54:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756088AbXIKLx7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:53:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:43474 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752259AbXIKLx6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:53:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:53:46 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Paulo Marques Cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Januszewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] video: uvesafb: Add X86 dependency. Message-ID: <20070911115346.GA23493@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Paulo Marques , Andrew Morton , Michal Januszewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070911081752.GA19495@linux-sh.org> <46E67EFD.2040902@grupopie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46E67EFD.2040902@grupopie.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 24 On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > >uvesafb is x86-specific, reflect that in the Kconfig. > > Hummm... uvesafb _shouldn't_ be x86 specific. At least according to > their page [1] where it says: "works on non-x86 systems". > > Uvesafb uses a x86 emulator in userspace to run code from the video card > ROM, so it should work on any PCI system where we can access the video > card ROM and can emulate the hardware used by the ROM code. > > Why do you say that it's x86 specific? Am I missing something? > The emulator it uses only runs on x86 and x86_64. Thus, it's x86 specific. The v86d and uvesafb pages seem to be in disagremeent, unless by 'non-x86' it's only implying x86_64. Additionally, it needs the vga I/O routines, as per vgacon. Most platforms don't define these. - 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/