From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: adaplas@pol.net, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:17:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050302121744.GA2871@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050301024118.GF4021@stusta.de>
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:41:18AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Do modular framebuffers really make sense?
>
Yes, at least these are quite common with embedded systems, quite often
without fbcon. It makes little sense to keep the driver constantly loaded
if the device is not being used as a console and is only seeing
occasional use.
It seems more sensible to just fix up the drivers that don't do this
right.. most of the broken drivers seem to be geared at x86 anyways where
people generally don't seem to care.
It may not make a lot of sense with distributions on x86, though it is
useful if you are doing driver development on a secondary device. This is
certainly a corner case though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-02 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-01 2:41 RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Adrian Bunk
2005-03-01 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-03-01 6:07 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-01 17:52 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " James Simmons
2005-03-01 12:49 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 13:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 16:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 19:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 20:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-03 20:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03 23:07 ` [2.6 patch] make savagefb one module Adrian Bunk
2005-03-04 9:17 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-05 1:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-05 20:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-01 16:59 ` RFC: disallow modular framebuffers Jesse Barnes
2005-03-02 11:32 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " David Vrabel
2005-03-02 12:17 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2005-03-02 18:01 ` Jon Smirl
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