From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:09:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt cc: Linux/PPC Development , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Samuel Rydh Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Video driver bug In-Reply-To: <19340907141507.13024@192.168.1.10> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >That's for 2.5.0. I think the first thing we need to do in 2.5.0 is to remove > >all `mess with non-visible VCs' support, so /dev/fb* works on the _current_ > >video mode. > > Well, my understanding is that MOL needs to be able to "probe" for all > supported mode. Doing so on a visible console would definitely be hell. > It does that in order to setup the MacOS-side driver mode list. Wouldn't it be sufficient to run MOL in only one mode, cfr. the X server? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/