From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: fbdev broken in current bk for PPC Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:35:25 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200409101635.25738.adaplas@hotpop.com> References: <1094783022.2667.106.camel@gaston> <1094796002.14398.118.camel@gaston> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1C5guI-0006Xo-So for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:37:22 -0700 Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com ([38.113.3.71]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5guG-0004MK-1b for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:37:21 -0700 Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B4BB10D8CA8 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:34:05 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Fbdev development list Cc: Antonino Daplas , Linux Kernel list , Andrew Morton On Friday 10 September 2004 16:07, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I submited a patch moving offb to the bottom of the Makefile to at > > least restore normal drivers. For ofonly, a bit more hackish, but > > Just in case they aren't, vesafb and vga16fb should also be at the bottom, > cfr. the old order in fbmem.c. > They are, with vfb at the very last. > > what about failing register_framebuffer for anything but offb ? > > Humm, indeed hackerish... > > But the advantage of this is that we can finally exercise the failure path > of many frame buffer device drivers in the wild ;-) > Assuming, as I've mentioned in another thread, that info->fix.name == to video=xxxfb. Tony ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php