From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:15:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465902911.30200.6.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465874771.18900.4.camel@ellerman.id.au>
On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 13:26 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> > 2. Try to fix `radeonfb` so that it is able to kick offb out of the
> > way. Eg: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-Augu
> > st/002907.html
> >
> > From my understanding it would make sense to go for (2), since it
> > would allow for proper support for CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m on PowerMac.
> > In
> > this case, would such patch be accepted ?
>
> Sounds like the right fix to me. Ben's patch above was merged, so
> it's supposed
> to kick out offb AFAICS, the fact that it can't seems like a
Make sure you have CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y
Ben.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-14 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-13 15:46 Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m Mathieu Malaterre
2016-06-14 3:26 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-06-14 6:05 ` Mathieu Malaterre
2016-06-14 11:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
[not found] ` <CA+7wUswqAh+6JLmLy=AmZJb7-mMqX0q-6fMyG_LsRECW4LwA3w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-01 12:12 ` Fwd: " Mathieu Malaterre
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