From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: Feature Freeze? Date: 05 Mar 2003 20:46:57 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1046868348.1228.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pine.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.37]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18qYHF-0001Qm-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 04:45:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linux Fbdev development list On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:57, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On 5 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > I believe it's time to finalize what is needed/not needed for the > > framebuffer framework: > > > 1. Text mode support? > > Required by at least davem and petr > > > 2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)? > > Nice, if it's not too much work. Adding this shouldn't be too hard. > > > 3. support for unloading of fbcon if modular? So we just make fbcon permanently loaded unconditionally? The current code allows 'rmmod fbcon', but it will freeze the system. > 0. Update all drivers > > Absolutely required Yes, which is why we need a feature freeze, so we can spend the rest of the period on driver updating and bug fixing. Tony ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf