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From: jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin)
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:52:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040913015259.GA2784@samarkand.rivenstone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409110504.09812.adaplas@hotpop.com>

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On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:04:09AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> How about this patch?  This brings back the old way of setting up the
> drivers, supports:
> 
> video=xxxfb:off
> video=ofonly
> 
> Your patch that brings offb to the very last of the Makefile is needed.

    Applying these two patches to 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 makes the framebuffer
console on my Powermac work again.  This box has an ATI RAGE chip on
the motherboard I don't often use, so being able to do video=atyfb:off
lets me keep the driver around -- thanks!

-- 
Joseph Fannin
jhf@rivenstone.net

"Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data."
    -- William Graves Perry Jr.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-10  2:23 fbdev broken in current bk for PPC Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-10  5:28 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-10  6:00   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-10  8:07     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-10  8:35       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-11  1:04         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-10  8:35     ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-10  8:48       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-10 17:52   ` David Eger
2004-09-10 21:27     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-10 23:40       ` David Eger
2004-09-11  7:19   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-10 21:04 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-11  1:00   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-13  1:52   ` Joseph Fannin [this message]
2004-09-20  9:27   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-20 15:52     ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Andrew Morton
2004-09-20 19:38       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-20 19:59         ` Antonino A. Daplas

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