From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Simmons Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] drm_fb_helper: Impossible to change video Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1985284609-741838265-1268320657=:1912" List-Id: References: <21d7e9970911202027l1d4deec6p5750b8425cd6bb3f@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9971003022102v232c099r441b0bd843b30313@mail.gmail.com> <1268302426.7444.117.camel@thor.local> In-Reply-To: To: Alex Deucher Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Michel_D=E4nzer?= , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Paulius Zaleckas , Michal Suchanek This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1985284609-741838265-1268320657=:1912 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >> It would be nice to find a way to reclaim the console memory for X, > >> but I'm not sure that can be done and still provide a good way to > >> provide oops support. > > > > What do you think the average user will care about more? > > > > =A0 =A0 =A0* Seeing kernel oops/panic output about once in a lifetime. > > =A0 =A0 =A0* Being able to start/use X in the first place and enabling = it to > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0use all of VRAM. > > > > Personally, I've never even seen any kernel oops/panic output despite > > numerous opportunities for that in the couple of months I've been using > > KMS. But I have spent considerable time and effort trying to get rid of > > the pinned fbcon BO. If the oops/panic output is the only thing > > preventing that, maybe that should only be enabled via some module > > option for developers. >=20 > I'm all for it! I'm looking into the details for this. It will require some changes to=20 internal apis to make it to work. --1985284609-741838265-1268320657=:1912 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev --1985284609-741838265-1268320657=:1912 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Linux-fbdev-devel mailing list Linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-fbdev-devel --1985284609-741838265-1268320657=:1912--