Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB accel capabilities patch

James Simmons
2004-05-19T19:34:22Z

> A month or two ago I noticed that the framebuffer console driver doesn't
> know to do proper framebuffer acceleration in Linux 2.6; I've implemented
> a solution Geert suggested where each framebuffer driver advertizes its
> hardware capabilities via fb_info->flags. Please apply to -mm so I can
> get wider testing.
>
> The patches are at:
>
> http://www.yak.net/random/fbdev-patches/accel-cap-take2/relative2mainline/
>
> The core of these patches is enabling the use of the following flags:
>
> +/* FBIF = FB_Info.Flags */
> +#define FBIF_MODULE 0x0001 /* Low-level driver is a module */

Ug. You changed that. Could that remain the same.

I have a patch coming that fixes the mode setting. It changes alot of the
core fbcon.c so I will apply your patch to the fbdev-2.5 tree.