From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Egbert Eich <eich@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105745463.9839.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16867.58009.828782.164427@xf14.fra.suse.de>
On Maw, 2005-01-11 at 14:28, Egbert Eich wrote:
> I'm fully aware that in the long run we will need to look into a new
> driver model for graphics where no two instances fight over who gets
> register access. However such a model won't be created nor will we get
> the majority of the drivers ported over night.
> Therefore we need to find an interim solution for the most pressing
> problems.
This doesn't appear to work as a solution because the functionality
changes won't be in all the existing kernel, and also because the kernel
font save has a couple of bugs reported against it with regards to
saving the right data that might need looking at anyway.
It seems it would be neccessary for X to have a way to know whether the
feature is present.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-15 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-11 14:28 vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11 Egbert Eich
2005-01-15 0:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-17 9:07 ` Egbert Eich
2005-01-17 12:23 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-17 14:29 ` Egbert Eich
2005-01-17 16:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-18 8:31 ` Egbert Eich
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