From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270498AbTGSFsU (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:48:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270504AbTGSFsU (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:48:20 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:30602 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270498AbTGSFsQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:48:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 08:02:41 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Alan Cox cc: James Simmons , Amit Shah , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test1: Framebuffer problem In-Reply-To: <1058562955.19511.65.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Gwe, 2003-07-18 at 21:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Then it still needs to be fixed. This works correctly in 2.4 > > Since vesafb can detect whether you booted with a graphics mode, vga16fb should > > be able to detect you didn't, right? > > Equally it knows that the frame buffer in question was allocated providing > someone is doing the resource handling right No, that's not so simple, because vesafb requests the linear frame buffer, while vga16fb requests the VGA region. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds