Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre6

From: Geert Uytterhoeven (geert@linux-m68k.org)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 05:55:52 EST

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> >...
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>:
> >...
> > o Wrong fbcon_mac dependency
> >...
>
> It's possible to enable CONFIG_FBCON_MAC on !m68k and after your change
> the compilation breaks on i386 with the following error:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.19-full/include
> -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -nostdinc
> -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=fbcon -c -o fbcon.o fbcon.c
> fbcon.c: In function `fbcon_setup':
> fbcon.c:641: `MACH_IS_MAC' undeclared (first use in this function)
> fbcon.c:641: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> fbcon.c:641: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [fbcon.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.19-full/drivers/video'

Hmmm... I didn't realize vesafb can use fbcon-mac.

However, it seems to be used if you don't enable any of the fbcon-cfb* modules
only, since fbcon-cfb* takes precendence.

Do people really use 6x11 fonts with vesafb?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert 

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