From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] fbdev: Clean up of sparc FB options Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070516.144739.41633447.davem@davemloft.net> References: <464B74EE.5040407@gmail.com> Reply-To: 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-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoRLJ-00076n-6F for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:34 -0700 Received: from [74.93.104.97] (helo=sunset.davemloft.net) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HoRLI-0007cs-Eh for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <464B74EE.5040407@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: adaplas@gmail.com Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 05:17:34 +0800 > From: Krzysztof Helt > > This patch puts all SBUS/UPA selection under one option "SBUS/UPA > framebuffers" and moves all sparc specific drivers next to them > in one group. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt > Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Thanks for cleaning this up. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller On a related note I've been trying to figure out how to solve a particular issue on sparc, perhaps you can help? The firmware has properties that we could use to determine exactly which framebuffer device is being used as the console in multi-head situations. Currently there is no easy way to make use of that so the user just gets whatever the framebuffer device probing order gives them which isn't nice and is often wrong. One idea I have is to provide a way to set some flag in the fbinfo. The flag would indicate that this framebuffer should be used as the primary console by default. Command line options et al. could of course override this. In this way sparc framebuffers could see if a device is the one the "output-device" firmware property points to, and if so it would set the flag. What do you think about this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/