Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC

Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-10T08:10:01Z

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I submited a patch moving offb to the bottom of the Makefile to at
> least restore normal drivers. For ofonly, a bit more hackish, but

Just in case they aren't, vesafb and vga16fb should also be at the bottom, cfr.
the old order in fbmem.c.

> what about failing register_framebuffer for anything but offb ?

Humm, indeed hackerish...

But the advantage of this is that we can finally exercise the failure path of
many frame buffer device drivers in the wild ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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