From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
John Zielinski <grim@undead.cc>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: fbdev upstream
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:08:02 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401061107350.5485@waterleaf.sonytel.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073351006.780.200.camel@gaston>
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 11:51, James Simmons wrote:
> > > Of course, that means we'll have to update more drivers, and platforms
> > > with fixed display, like embedded etc... will need some way to deal
> > > with that properly in their drivers.
> >
> > Fixed screen size drivers should provide there own modedb.
>
> Or just single mode... currently drivers don't export a modedb, they
> keep one internally and do the validation... though it would make sense
> to expose a modedb to userland, so we can have some nice GUI tools
> showing you the available modes :) It would make sense for MacOnLinux
> too which currently rely on the user to setup the list of modes
> available to MacOS.
And how to export it? Sysfs again, I guess...
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
-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.
Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's
Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin.
Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-06 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-10 7:03 Changing modes with fbset John Zielinski
2003-12-14 1:14 ` John Zielinski
2003-12-24 8:20 ` fbdev upstream (was: Changing modes with fbset) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-24 8:26 ` Carlo E. Prelz
2003-12-24 20:40 ` fbdev upstream John Zielinski
2003-12-24 22:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-25 0:45 ` John Zielinski
2003-12-25 0:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-25 1:53 ` John Zielinski
2003-12-25 10:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-25 16:53 ` John Zielinski
2004-01-05 14:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-06 0:51 ` James Simmons
2004-01-06 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 10:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2004-01-09 20:05 ` James Simmons
2004-01-06 0:47 ` James Simmons
2004-01-08 2:17 ` John Zielinski
2004-01-08 20:37 ` James Simmons
2004-01-06 0:06 ` Changing modes with fbset James Simmons
2004-01-06 0:28 ` Otto Solares
2004-01-06 0:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 1:08 ` Otto Solares
2004-01-06 1:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 1:44 ` Otto Solares
2004-01-06 1:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 2:06 ` Otto Solares
[not found] ` <1073354986.761.208.camel@gaston>
2004-01-06 2:24 ` Otto Solares
2004-01-06 11:38 ` Michel Dänzer
2004-01-06 15:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-09 0:03 ` James Simmons
2004-01-09 1:31 ` Otto Solares
2004-01-06 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-06 0:38 ` James Simmons
2004-01-08 2:06 ` John Zielinski
2004-01-08 20:38 ` James Simmons
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.GSO.4.58.0401061107350.5485@waterleaf.sonytel.be \
--to=geert@linux-m68k.org \
--cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=grim@undead.cc \
--cc=jsimmons@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.