From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: request_mem_region problem ... Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 08:52:11 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20021109075211.GA939@iliana> References: <20021030130016.GA1573@iliana> <1036024416.644.23.camel@daplas> <20021031081007.GB617@iliana> <1036062270.638.25.camel@daplas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.19.23] helo=mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18AQPs-0002Lb-00 for ; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 23:52:29 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1036062270.638.25.camel@daplas> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Antonino Daplas Cc: Sven Luther , fbdev On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:05:13PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > How, well, maybe i should wait for the new patches from James to be > > accepted into the linus tree. > > > > Notice, maybe this is due to me not having defined yet any of the > > check_var, set_par, blank, ... functions, but my idea, for the howto > > afterward, was to write first the most minimal working fbdev. > > > > BTW, should i work on james BK tree directly ? Is there an howto on how > > to do that ? Or could it be possible to get a patch against 2.5.44 ? > > > Try Documentation/BK-usage. You will need a very fat pipe, then for a > start, > > bk clone bk://fbdev.bkbits.net/fbdev-2.5 How the hell can i use this ? i don't have any bk installed, and i doubt bk will ever be debian packaged so i will have to clutter my system, and they ask me about some collection of stupid questions before i can download, and finally it is not even possible to download this stuff. I suppose there is another free solution for downloading the bk kernel, does anyone have a link to it or to documentation about how to do it ? Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf