From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097843969.9863.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416E8322.25700.29ACC2F1@localhost>
On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 21:46, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> a way to spawn a user mode process that early in the boot sequence (it
> would have to come from the initrd image I expect) then the only option
> is to compile it into the kernel.
There is exactly that in 2.6 - the hotplug interfaces allow the kernel
to fire off userspace programs. Jon Smirl (who you should definitely
talk to about this stuff) has been hammering out a design for moving
almost all the mode switching into user space for kernel video.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 13:49 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-14 20:03 ` Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 20:46 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 20:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-15 22:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 22:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:02 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 15:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-10-20 17:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-21 4:03 Yu, Luming
2004-10-21 4:03 ` Yu, Luming
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2004-10-16 1:50 [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-10-16 2:03 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 19:34 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-18 20:34 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-18 21:16 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Jon Smirl
2004-10-18 22:34 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-18 23:28 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 0:18 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-19 0:55 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 1:39 ` Richard Smith
2004-10-19 17:54 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 21:48 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 17:01 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 19:08 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 19:36 ` Kendall Bennett
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2004-10-15 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 22:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-16 1:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-21 11:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-18 11:44 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 19:43 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 17:01 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-19 17:54 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 15:37 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-16 0:55 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-16 12:21 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-14 19:02 Kendall Bennett
2004-10-14 19:59 ` Zachary Smith
2004-10-15 23:36 ` Ian Romanick
2004-10-14 20:48 ` Zachary Smith
2004-10-15 18:05 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:55 ` Zachary Smith
2004-10-15 19:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-15 22:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:05 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Gerd Knorr
2004-10-15 12:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-15 13:13 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-17 12:07 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 8:36 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-18 11:39 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 12:10 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-15 18:29 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Venkatesh Pallipadi
2004-10-16 9:01 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-15 13:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 13:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:44 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 22:12 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-19 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
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