Framebuffer drivers that break the boot on systemswithout the hardware
From: Rene Herman
Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 16:15:21 EST
Hi Antonino.
At:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/96
Ingo Molnar posted a list of drivers he found to break the boot during
testing of randconfig kernels and among them are a number of FB drivers:
FB_CIRRUS
FB_ASILIANT
FB_VGA16
FB_VESA
FB_RADEON
FB_CYBLA
(and FB_VIRTUAL)
Looking at some of them there wouldn't seem to be too many very sensible
options to avoid this at the individual driver level. Would you perhaps
have an idea how to avoid the issue generically for these?
More of the drivers in that list will be considered fine as is but I
was fixing some of the old legacy ISA ones as ofcourse any driver not
needing special avoidance treatment is one less to have to deal with.
The randconfig testing IS useful in finding bugs, so...
Rene.
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