From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:18:53 -0700 (PDT) From: James Simmons To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Samuel Rydh , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Linux/PPC Development , olh@suse.de Subject: Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Video driver bug In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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. Yep. I still like the to see the current drivers move closer to the new api. > > I think we must do something in 2.4.0-testX, since you can abuse the bug to > > panic the box. > > Does this fix the problem on atyfb? I'm not able to test it myself. I haven't tested it yet. I don't have ATI card for myself yet. I will take a close look at what we can do. Give a few days. Right now I'm working on a rewrite of vgacon and vga16fb. I hope to get it so we can go from vgacon to fbcon and back again. This will help alot in driver developement. VC switch and rrmod a driver. Regain the VC back. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/