Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB accel capabilities patch

[James Simmons]

> A month or two ago I noticed that the framebuffer console driver doesn't
> know to do proper framebuffer acceleration in Linux 2.6;  I've implemented
> a solution Geert suggested where each framebuffer driver advertizes its 
> hardware capabilities via fb_info->flags.  Please apply to -mm so I can 
> get wider testing.
> 
> The patches are at:
> 
> http://www.yak.net/random/fbdev-patches/accel-cap-take2/relative2mainline/
> 
> The core of these patches is enabling the use of the following flags:
> 
> +/* FBIF = FB_Info.Flags */
> +#define FBIF_MODULE		0x0001	/* Low-level driver is a module */

Ug. You changed that. Could that remain the same. 

I have a patch coming that fixes the mode setting. It changes alot of the 
core fbcon.c so I will apply your patch to the fbdev-2.5 tree. 


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