From: John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
Linux Frame Buffer Device Development
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7 still garbage upon start
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:40:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D2F0DA.8050706@undead.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406181516460.11779@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>Hence vgacon should be replaced by dummycon when it's deinitialized.
>
>
>
I like that. That way we're not depending on the old console driver to
do the right thing when in KD_GRAPHICS. Vgacon currently does but other
console drivers might not.
I'll try that out tonight and see how it goes and then post the patch.
>(According to what I learned from the EFI talk at OLS last year) It's worse:
>you have to talk to the EFI bytecode to draw text on UGA, no direct access to
>the frame buffer ;-(
>
>
Doh. Let me guess, the interface was designed by a committee.....
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 22:41 2.6.7 still garbage upon start Thomas Winischhofer
2004-06-18 1:45 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-18 7:54 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-06-18 8:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-18 13:08 ` John Zielinski
2004-06-18 13:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-18 13:40 ` John Zielinski [this message]
2004-06-18 18:40 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-19 2:09 ` John Zielinski
2004-06-19 3:08 ` David Eger
2004-06-19 6:13 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-22 9:45 ` David Eger
2004-06-22 13:20 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-19 19:27 ` John Zielinski
2004-06-19 20:25 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-18 10:04 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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