Re: FBDEV updates.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> 
> Will do. I like to also handle Video mode change. Even userland will like 
> to know when a mode change happened. For userland a signal can be sent. 
> This would be useful for someone in X that runs fbset in a Xterm. This 
> hoses the X server. It would be nice if the X server would see the signal 
> change and adapt to it. Fbset could in theory be used again to change a VC 
> size. Yuck!!!! But it is what people want.

And for good reasons as we still have to deal with cases
where neither the driver nor modedb knows what the monitor supports...

Ben.

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