Re: Framebuffer drivers in kernel 2.6.x

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Tue, 2004-08-17 18:57:10 +0200, Otto Wyss <otto.wyss@orpatec.ch>
wrote in message <412238E7.C4A7ED2D@orpatec.ch>:
> I tried to use kernel 2.6.7 but there are almost no framebuffer drivers.

Uh? There are quite a lot of them...

> Why is this, can't the drivers from 2.4.x easily be ported to 2.7.x?
> What are the obstacles?

The API changed, but it isn't too hard to port old-style drivers to the
new API. If this hasn't happened yet, it's just because nobody yet
really missed that particular driver. However, there are a lot of
drivers available...

MfG, JBG

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