linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] fbdev: uvesafb driver

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Message-Id: <20070623163639.f6b4f20d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:36:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	spock@...too.org
Cc:	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] fbdev: uvesafb driver

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:20:33 +0200 Michal Januszewski <spock@...too.org> wrote:

> > > +config FB_UVESA
> > > +	tristate "Userspace VESA VGA graphics support"
> > > +	depends on FB && CONNECTOR
> > 
> > These dependencies are insufficient.
> 
> What exactly is missing here?  A dep on X86?

Yes.  From your other comments it appears that a dependency on X86_32 is
needed.

>  This would indicate the
> arches on which the driver has actually been tested.  But which arches
> are supported and which aren't is, in the end, up to the userspace helper.

The other architectures won't compile: they don't have mtrr.h
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