Re: [PATCH] sysfs support for fbdev

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 05:00 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Not finished yet but here's an update.
> 
> Merges Antonio's fbcon support
> Creates monitor device inside of fbdev
> Creates two fbdev devices for radeonfb
> 
> The changes in class.c are temporary GregKH promises a real fix soon.
> Patch is 1000+ lines so I made it an attachment.
> 
> Making the monitor device inside of the fbdev allows hotplug to work
> for monitors. Now all I need to do is hook up the radeon interrupt.
> When finished, unplug the monitor, get interrupt, build monitor
> device, get hotplug event, helper builds modelist, set modelist to
> fbdev, this causes sysfs attribute change event, hal then dbus hears
> this, X rebuilds the display. Still a few weeks of work to go.
> 
> If anyone wants to help implement some of the other attributes, send
> me a patch and I will incorporate it.

I can already get some of the radeonfb bits in for 2.6.12, that will
make things easier. I'll let you know.

Ben.




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