From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:01:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339105030210012e98d658@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050302121744.GA2871@linux-sh.org>
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:44 +0200, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> It seems more sensible to just fix up the drivers that don't do this
> right.. most of the broken drivers seem to be geared at x86 anyways where
> people generally don't seem to care.
X86 people don't care because they have VGA (with all of it's warts).
But that doesn't mean that VGA is a good thing. VGA lets X86 systems
run without needing framebuffer support.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 2:41 RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Adrian Bunk
2005-03-01 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01 6:07 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-01 17:52 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2005-03-01 12:49 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 13:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 16:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 19:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 20:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 20:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 23:07 ` [2.6 patch] make savagefb one module Adrian Bunk
2005-03-04 9:17 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-05 1:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-05 20:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 16:59 ` RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 11:32 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " David Vrabel
2005-03-02 12:17 ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-02 18:01 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
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