From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:35:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40048EB4.9010500@winischhofer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113190443.GR9677@fs.tum.de>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:04:53AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
>
>>Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:40:03AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>...
>>>>All 393 patches
>>>>...
>>>>use-soft-float.patch
>>>> Use -msoft-float
>>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>I know. The version of sisfb in 2.6 vanilla is from stone-age. This is
>>has been fixed a long time ago in my current development version (and
>>will be in 2.4 as soon as Marcelo applies my patch which I sent him
>>about a week ago). For 2.6, using my current version requires James
>>Simmons's fbdev-patch because of low-level fbdev-interface changes (like
>>sysfs usage, etc).
>>
>>The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.)
>
>
> Until the framebuffer stuff in 2.6 gets updated, I'm suggesting the
> patch below to mark FB_SIS as BROKEN.
I think that's a bit harsh. It basically works, it just illegally uses
some FP operations (as it still does in 2.4 until Marcelo finally
applies the patch I have sent him for three times now - hint, hint)
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-14 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-09 9:40 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 9:40 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 14:47 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-09 14:47 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-09 14:53 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Wojciech 'Sas' Cieciwa
2004-01-09 14:53 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Wojciech 'Sas' Cieciwa
2004-01-09 14:21 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-09 14:21 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-01-09 15:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-01-09 15:24 ` John Cherry
2004-01-09 16:30 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 16:30 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 21:20 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 21:20 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 21:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 21:24 ` 2.6.1-mm1 Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-09 23:04 ` 2.6.1-mm1 - nforce2 timer patch sum up cheuche+lkml
2004-01-09 19:31 ` 2.6.1-mm1: sound/pci/cmipci.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2004-01-09 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09 23:37 ` 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 4:04 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-01-12 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-12 4:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 6:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-12 6:47 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 7:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 7:20 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 12:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 6:21 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 6:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-12 6:58 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 7:03 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 16:33 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-12 17:00 ` Gene Heskett
2004-01-12 17:04 ` Dave Jones
2004-01-12 8:58 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-01-12 14:32 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2004-01-12 10:36 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-01-13 19:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14 0:35 ` Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
2004-01-15 11:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-15 11:42 ` Thomas Winischhofer
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