From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:14:16 -0500 Message-ID: <9e47339105021813146cf69759@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910502181251ea2b95e@mail.gmail.com> <20050218210822.GB8588@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D2FSE-00047s-Vv for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:14:26 -0800 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.197]) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D2FSD-0002qy-ES for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:14:26 -0800 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z35so811532rne for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:14:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20050218210822.GB8588@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jon Smirl , lkml , fbdev On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:08:22 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Under Fedora (and RHEL), they're there because we generally > don't want to load them unless the user asked for them. Is there a specific reason why they are blocked? For example I'm looking at making changes to DRM such that DRM will require the corresponding framebuffer driver to be loaded. If you back up further this is part of fixing X so that it won't mess with the hardware from user space. Mode setting would come from the framebuffer driver instead of the X 2D XAA driver. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click