From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:17:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063124237.1356.1.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909155822.47988.qmail@web14904.mail.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:58, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:52, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > What would 'base' be without all of this ? just the PCI probing ?
> >
> Base does PCI IDs, EDID, mode setting, command parsing, maybe hardware cursor,
> VT switching and state saving.
> Second piece does fbcon support such as mapping fb to kernel space, fb accels,
> etc.
The current fbdev layer, afaik, impose vt switching, mode setting,
cursor support etc... to imply fbcon. The mapping of fb is just a
2 liner remaining that isn't worth a separate module.
Also, the accel API in 2.6 is meant to be used by more than just
fbcon afaik.
James, can you comment on this ?
Ben.
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[not found] <1063039868.1836.31.camel@gaston>
2003-09-09 3:19 ` New radeonfb 0.2.0 (take 2) Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 7:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 14:52 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 15:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 15:58 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-09 16:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-12 17:51 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:52 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:53 ` James Simmons
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