Re: Fbdev 2.5.49 BK fixes.

[Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru>]

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:22:07PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > > Hm. Strange. It should work. Can you get serial console working? 
> > 
> > Forgot to mention, I've seen message:
> > 	fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
> > in /var/log/dmesg. 
> > 
> > I found this printk() in fbcon_setup(), but i can't even imagine 
> > why it happens.
> 
> Perfect. I found the problem and I'm about to commit to BK. I posted the 
> latest patch against 2.5.49 at
>
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
> 
I see some harmless crap slipped into the patch again :))

Add these file into /home/jsimmons/dontdiff:
	vmlinux.lds.s
	gen_init_cpio
	initramfs_data.cpio.gz

I'll test the patch this eveninig.

> > I understand this situation perfectly, looks like it's almost common for
> > developers working in "not so importatnt for servers" subsystems :(
> 
> :-( Some day that attitude will change.
> 

Lets hope so.

> P.S
> 
>     Several drivers have been ported but not all. NVIDIA is still broken 
> but I will fix it tonight.

I can test the fix on my riva128.

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