From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6A5DDE37 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:31 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: vga16fb doesn't build on powerpc (vgacon_remap_base) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Geert Uytterhoeven In-Reply-To: References: <20071016191403.GA5962@nineveh.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:01:19 +1000 Message-Id: <1192611679.11899.160.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.