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Message-ID: <21d7e9970705210916r152ecaf4jafc2b0c1ce3914ae@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:16:20 +0100
From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.com>
Cc: "Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@...il.net>,
"Jesse Barnes" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem
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>
> There is more to fbdev than mode setting. It is also how non-x86
> platforms achieve their boot display. How will boot display be handled
> with the your design? What about console display on non-x86 platforms?
> Loading both fbdev and the new code puts us right back into the
> multiple driver fight we have today.
>
> If the kernel graphics system is going to get rewritten the rewrite
> needs to address all of the existing problems.
>
We already have fbcon working perfectly on top of this layer... so you
might want to actually look at the developed code..
Dave.
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