Re: hi-res fb console with 2.6.0-testX ?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:57:34PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > And whole fb subsystem changed semantic, so do not build both
> > > vesafb & matroxfb into the kernel - either one or another, or
> > > you'll be definitely surprised what will happen (and I'm almost
> > > sure that blank screen is not what you want).
> > 
> > What's wrong with the resource system that prevents this from working?
> 
> vesafb ignore failures... for framebuffer it just prints warning only, and
> for 0x3C0 region it just completely ignores warning (due to vgacon
> clash). But it should not be serious, user should just get console 
> on matroxfb, and vesafb on /dev/fb1 doing nothing.

OK.

> Main thing which prevents this from working as users expects is that
> modular fbdevs cannot be used by fbcon. So people cannot create
> initrd scripts which load proper fbdev driver anymore, after detecting
> hardware and making sure that hardware & user wishes & driver are
> compatible. They now have to build fbdevs to the kernel, and hope for
> the best...

Ugh, didn't know that...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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