From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vga16fb doesn't build on powerpc (vgacon_remap_base)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192611679.11899.160.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710171047430.29856@pademelon.sonytel.be>
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:49 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> > So VGACON probably doesn't work either on 32bit. I'm guessing
> arch/powerpc
> > doesn't support PREP.
>
> It's not only useful for PREP, but also for CHRP.
>
> > How best could this be fixed up? Or should I just let the thing
> > be? This is obviously not a new thing, and I don't have any
> hardware
> > that supports this stuff either.
>
> I remember this problem was present when I still had a working
> LongTrail (which
> is CHRP), long before arch/powerpc/ was created.
It's all very old stuff that needs to be dusted. If you have a setup
where legacy VGA is useable, feel free to do a bit of work on that :-)
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-17 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 19:14 vga16fb doesn't build on powerpc (vgacon_remap_base) Joseph Fannin
2007-10-16 21:31 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2007-10-17 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-17 9:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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