Re: Proposal: non-PC ISA bus support

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 20:05:10 EST


> It works somewhat, because we have no devfn conflit (fortunately), the
> kernel config space access routines can sort out the mess at the lowest
> level, and XFree on those machines is only used in fbdev mode on top of
> aty128fb or atyfb. But that's definitely not a good long term solution.

Why is not a good long term solution ? What does fbdev lack that you need?
Personally I like to see everything moved to fbdev especially with
multihead support around the corner :-)

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

James Simmons [jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org] ____/|
fbdev/console/gfx developer \ o.O|
http://www.linux-fbdev.org =(_)=
http://linuxgfx.sourceforge.net U
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net

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