From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: radeonfb: Please enable support for X850XT Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:56:26 +1100 Message-ID: <1204800986.21545.255.camel@pasglop> References: <20071206212809.GA8249@aragorn.home.lxtec.de> <68676e00712080518g6185e5d8oe74cca828d5f559d@mail.gmail.com> <20071209174346.GA18769@gandalf.home.lxtec.de> <20080305224208.81063f96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <68676e00803060207x60c916e9s2adff45049715551@mail.gmail.com> 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-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXDmY-0007Ep-Ms for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:57:02 -0800 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57] ident=[U2FsdGVkX198SjNejmdiNVDI8sKZAsRE+bA+JwhsPIc=]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1JXDmW-0001xM-SX for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:57:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: <68676e00803060207x60c916e9s2adff45049715551@mail.gmail.com> 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: Luca Tettamanti Cc: Jerome Glisse , Andrew Morton , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/