Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com>:
> It also appears that upon a re-configuration of 2.4.3 from 2.2.17:
>
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> > cp ../linux-2.2.17/.config .
> > make oldconfig
>
> where the old configuration did not include FrameBuffer support,
> then performing an Xconfig to tweak some settings and enable FB,
> no default fonts were allocated. This is contrary to CML1 behavoir.
>
> > grep ^CONFIG_FB .config
> CONFIG_FB=y
> CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> CONFIG_FB_MACH64=y
>
>
> however CML1, after only selecting the applicable drivers gives:
> > grep ^CONFIG_FB ~/myotherbox-2.4.3.config
> CONFIG_FB=y
> CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
> CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
> CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y
Yes, all those extra symbols are derived from the drivers that you
didn't select during the CML2 run.
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