linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

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Message-ID: <20090623084044.7906f2d0@jbarnes-g45>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:40:44 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Hellström 
	<thomas@...pmail.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>, dri-devel@...ts.sf.net,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm: previous pull req + 1.

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:26:15 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:07 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> > Yeah I don't think we should try to change the mode, unless we
> > really have to for whatever reason.  fbcon should generally be able
> > to paint to whatever we have up as long as we set it up properly.
> 
> Well... it may not. IE. The text consoles can be using a different
> mode than X, and so fbcon will be all setup for that ... (including
> how many lines/columns etc...).

Yeah, I was suggesting we change fbcon's view of the world at panic
time, rather than trying to change the mode.  It's a bit of surgery
though...

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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