From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: radeonfb: Please enable support for X850XT
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:56:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204800986.21545.255.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68676e00803060207x60c916e9s2adff45049715551@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:07 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> > It no longer applies. Could you please redo it against current
> Linux
> > mainline and resend, with a full changelog and signed-off-by:?
> Thanks.
>
> I can send you what I'm using here, but I really don't think that it's
> suitable for mainline.
> With the recent progress with the in-kernel modesetting (hi Jerome :D)
> radeonfb is going away soon, replaced with a generic "drmfb".
I agree. There is little point in adding more support to radeonfb at
this stage. It's on life support, in order to provide the basic console
for machines without VGA text mode such as powermacs, but it will be
replaced by the new stuff from Jerome soon enough.
Cheers,
Ben.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 21:28 radeonfb: Please enable support for X850XT Elimar Riesebieter
2007-12-06 21:37 ` Elimar Riesebieter
2007-12-08 13:18 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-12-09 17:43 ` Elimar Riesebieter
2008-03-06 6:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-06 10:07 ` Luca Tettamanti
2008-03-06 10:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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