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

Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-10T08:36:49Z

On Friday 10 September 2004 16:07, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
>

They are, with vfb at the very last.

> > 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 ;-)
>

Assuming, as I've mentioned in another thread, that info->fix.name ==
to video=xxxfb.

Tony