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

Antonino A. Daplas
2004-09-20T19:37:24Z

On Monday 20 September 2004 23:52, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > Andrew, Any reason why this patch isn't upstream ? The recent changes
> > to fbdev in 2.6.9-* are a regression and we need this patch to get bac
> > the video=ofonly feature.
>
> Well I have a whole bunch of fbcon/fbdev patches here, but at some point
> one needs to plug the flow so we can get 2.6.9 out the door. And nobody
> told me (until now) that we had a problem.
>
> Tony, which of the below shold be merged into 2.6.9?
>

> fbdev-fix-userland-compile-breakage.patch
> fbcon-fix-fbcons-setup-routine.patch
> fbdev-arrange-driver-order-in-makefile.patch

These 3 need to go to mainline.

> fbdev-fix-logo-drawing-failure-for-vga16fb.patch
> fbcon-fix-setup-boot-options-of-fbcon.patch

These 2 need not go immediately as no one will probably notice what they
fixed.

> radeonfb-fix-warnings-about-uninitialized-variables.patch

I haven't seen this.

> fbdev-remove-unnecessary-banshee_wait_idle-from-tdfxfb.patch
> fbdev-initialize-i810fb-after-agpgart.patch
> fbdev-pass-struct-device-to-class_simple_device_add.patch
> fbdev-add-tile-blitting-support.patch
> fbdev-fix-scrolling-corruption.patch
> fbdev-remove-i810fb-explicit-agp-initialization-hack.patch

These can wait.

Tony