linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=M0p+=mwRxZpShRU6y6iskEE5+nz6bd+9kek3Y@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:43:40 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like nouveafb took over from vesafb. Did you do anything special
>>> to trigger this?
>>
>> No. Just boot the system.
>
> Every boot?
>
> And just out of interest, what happens if you don't have the vesafb
> driver at all?
>

I think this is a race condition somewhere with plymouth getting
access to vesafb before it gets kicked off the hw,

I'm assuming removing the vga= line from the command line will stop it,

Dave.
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