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From: John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
	Linux Frame Buffer Device Development
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7 still garbage upon start
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:40:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D2F0DA.8050706@undead.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406181516460.11779@waterleaf.sonytel.be>

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>Hence vgacon should be replaced by dummycon when it's deinitialized.
>
>  
>
I like that.  That way we're not depending on the old console driver to 
do the right thing when in KD_GRAPHICS.  Vgacon currently does but other 
console drivers might not.

I'll try that out tonight and see how it goes and then post the patch.

>(According to what I learned from the EFI talk at OLS last year) It's worse:
>you have to talk to the EFI bytecode to draw text on UGA, no direct access to
>the frame buffer ;-(
>  
>
Doh.  Let me guess, the interface was designed by a committee.....

John




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-17 22:41 2.6.7 still garbage upon start Thomas Winischhofer
2004-06-18  1:45 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-18  7:54   ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-06-18  8:23     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-18 13:08       ` John Zielinski
2004-06-18 13:18         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-06-18 13:40           ` John Zielinski [this message]
2004-06-18 18:40           ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-19  2:09             ` John Zielinski
2004-06-19  3:08             ` David Eger
2004-06-19  6:13               ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-22  9:45                 ` David Eger
2004-06-22 13:20                   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-19 19:27             ` John Zielinski
2004-06-19 20:25               ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-06-18 10:04     ` Antonino A. Daplas

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