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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch]: Fix rivafb's NV_ARCH_, cleanup DEBUG, backlight control on ppc
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 05:33:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407100533.59503.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040709112539.GA2286@bogon.ms20.nix>

On Friday 09 July 2004 19:25, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:36:44AM -0500, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Ok, well, it looks good to me. There is no active maintainer for rivafb
> > so, I suppose if nobody complains of breakage, it should be fine.
>
> Since this isn't in yet. Here's another version that:
>  - fixes the PCI-IDs (needed to get it to work on at least the NV17)
>  - cleans up the DEBUG option (similar to the new radeonfb). This also
>    makes it easy to replace printk by btext_printf() (on ppc) or similar
>    to ease debugging of the fb code when all else fails.
>  - adds backlight control for Apple powerbooks
> Patch is against 2.6.7-bk20. Please apply,
>  -- Guido

Tried the patch, and works okay for me (NV10 x86).  I'm not really too
keen on making debug printing as a kernel config option, but it's a minor point.
This patch should be applied.

Tony



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-01  4:16 [Patch]: Fix rivafb's OF parsing Guido Guenther
2004-06-01  4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-01 13:53   ` Guido Guenther
2004-06-02  9:57     ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-03 22:40     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-04 15:49       ` Guido Guenther
2004-06-16  7:03     ` [Patch]: Fix rivafb's NV_ARCH_ Guido Guenther
2004-06-20 19:25       ` Guido Guenther
2004-06-20 22:05         ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-06-21  4:11         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-21  7:11           ` Guido Guenther
2004-06-21 15:36             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-21 19:51               ` Guido Guenther
2004-07-09 11:25               ` [Patch]: Fix rivafb's NV_ARCH_, cleanup DEBUG, backlight control on ppc Guido Guenther
2004-07-09 21:33                 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2004-06-23 19:35         ` [Patch]: Fix rivafb's NV_ARCH_ jsimmons
2004-06-24  6:55           ` Guido Guenther

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