From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Framebuffer drivers that break the boot on systemswithout the hardware
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:49:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489F6253.3010703@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808092319.43139.elendil@planet.nl>
On 09-08-08 23:19, Frans Pop wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
>> Ingo Molnar posted a list of drivers he found to break the boot during
>> testing of randconfig kernels and among them are a number of FB drivers:
>>
>> FB_VESA
>
> This one is set to "y" in the kernel configs for the generic Debian
> kernels for i386 and x86_64 and is used by default for the graphical
> version of the Debian Installer, so I'd be very surprised if it broke
> very many systems...
> AFAIK it is only actually enabled if the 'vga=' boot parameter is passed.
>
> Ingo's mail also lists FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE which again is set to "y" in
> Debian's standard kernel configs for x86 (and probably most other
> arches).
Okay. MDA_CONSOLE was also in there impying RAM at 0xb0000 which might
indicate a gun/foot situation here...
>> (and FB_VIRTUAL)
>
> This one should be fixed with 2.6.27-rc1. The commit that fixes it is:
> commit b604838ac6d233fd6bffc0e758a818133a01ff22
> Author: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
> Date: Wed Jul 23 21:31:26 2008 -0700
> vfb: only enable if explicitly requested when compiled in
Ah, thanks.
Rene.
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2008-08-09 20:15 Framebuffer drivers that break the boot on systemswithout the hardware Rene Herman
2008-08-09 21:19 ` Frans Pop
2008-08-10 21:49 ` Rene Herman [this message]
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