From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262135AbVAOBsS (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:48:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262133AbVAOBl0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:41:26 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:43497 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262115AbVAOBif (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:38:35 -0500 Subject: Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11 From: Alan Cox To: Egbert Eich Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <16867.58009.828782.164427@xf14.fra.suse.de> References: <16867.58009.828782.164427@xf14.fra.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1105745463.9839.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:44 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.