From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: vga16fb doesn't build on powerpc (vgacon_remap_base) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:19 +1000 Message-ID: <1192611679.11899.160.camel@pasglop> References: <20071016191403.GA5962@nineveh.local> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ii4mN-0000dw-Ll for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:01:28 -0700 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=[U2FsdGVkX19TE3l9u8XQIyZ1H3YFMYOQLMLIJgIYh58=]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Ii4mL-0005Ip-4n for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:01:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:49 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > So VGACON probably doesn't work either on 32bit. I'm guessing > arch/powerpc > > doesn't support PREP. > > It's not only useful for PREP, but also for CHRP. > > > How best could this be fixed up? Or should I just let the thing > > be? This is obviously not a new thing, and I don't have any > hardware > > that supports this stuff either. > > I remember this problem was present when I still had a working > LongTrail (which > is CHRP), long before arch/powerpc/ was created. It's all very old stuff that needs to be dusted. If you have a setup where legacy VGA is useable, feel free to do a bit of work on that :-) Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/