From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: KendallB@scitechsoft.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:33:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097850784.9857.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3655cjc1r.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>
On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 15:22, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The problem is that this would imply that the console would only
> work after user space is running. Even with initrd that's quite late.
It doesn't imply this at all. You set an initial mode with the BIOS
during boot up. When your initrd runs you gain the ability to flip mode
and do cool stuff - arguably it doesn't even need to be in initrd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 15:35 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-15 14:22 ` Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Andi Kleen
2004-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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
2004-10-21 4:03 Yu, Luming
2004-10-21 4:03 ` Yu, Luming
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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2004-10-14 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 20:46 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:39 ` Alan Cox
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
2004-10-14 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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