Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > That works great on x86, but this solution was developed for PowerPC and 
> > > MIPS embedded systems development not x86 desktop systems. For those 
> > > platforms you either need a boot loader that can bring up the system into 
> > > graphics mode (possible with U-Boot) or to init the video right when the 
> > > framebuffer console driver is brought up.
> > 
> > Right there are certainly cases where you need to do stuff very
> > early. Even then you may benefit because you can keep the kernel
> > side init pretty basic and also marked "__init" so it is freed post
> > boot. 
> 
> Right. I haven't yet figured out how to mark the code as __init so it can 
> get tossed out, although if we use the VESA driver after the fact you 
> would want to keep it around in that case. But to just boot the card and 
> use say the Radeon FB driver it would be nice to toss out the code.
> 
> I should probably look into that.

On any machine trying to do suspend-to-RAM, that POST code is likely
to be needed for suspend, too.
								Pavel
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