Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:04:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:04:05 -0500 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:22512 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:03:55 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: To: "Petr Vandrovec" Cc: Pozsar Balazs , linux-kernel Subject: Re: FBdev remains in unusable state Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:03:12 +0000 Message-ID: <28227.1008262992@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz said: > As it requires userspace, complete realmode 16bit DOS environment, it > should not live in kernel (due to being 16bit code, and requiring its > own mm). A mechanism for a userspace program to change the video mode, then tell vesafb about the new mode, might be the best way to do this. -- dwmw2 - 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/