From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:38:00 +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200409210338.00863.adaplas@hotpop.com> References: <1094783022.2667.106.camel@gaston> <1095672428.13735.3.camel@gaston> <20040920085214.0abe33a0.akpm@osdl.org> Reply-To: adaplas@pol.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040920085214.0abe33a0.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, adaplas@pol.net On Monday 20 September 2004 23:52, Andrew Morton wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Andrew, Any reason why this patch isn't upstream ? The recent changes > > to fbdev in 2.6.9-* are a regression and we need this patch to get bac > > the video=ofonly feature. > > Well I have a whole bunch of fbcon/fbdev patches here, but at some point > one needs to plug the flow so we can get 2.6.9 out the door. And nobody > told me (until now) that we had a problem. > > Tony, which of the below shold be merged into 2.6.9? > > fbdev-fix-userland-compile-breakage.patch > fbcon-fix-fbcons-setup-routine.patch > fbdev-arrange-driver-order-in-makefile.patch These 3 need to go to mainline. > fbdev-fix-logo-drawing-failure-for-vga16fb.patch > fbcon-fix-setup-boot-options-of-fbcon.patch These 2 need not go immediately as no one will probably notice what they fixed. > radeonfb-fix-warnings-about-uninitialized-variables.patch I haven't seen this. > fbdev-remove-unnecessary-banshee_wait_idle-from-tdfxfb.patch > fbdev-initialize-i810fb-after-agpgart.patch > fbdev-pass-struct-device-to-class_simple_device_add.patch > fbdev-add-tile-blitting-support.patch > fbdev-fix-scrolling-corruption.patch > fbdev-remove-i810fb-explicit-agp-initialization-hack.patch These can wait. Tony