Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/3: FBDEV: VGA State Save/Restore module

From: Antonino Daplas (adaplas@pol.net)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 10:27:16 EST


On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 05:53, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > Only the structure definition of fb_vgastate is in fb.h. For drivers
> > without a vga core, they'll just won't link to it and it won't be
> > compiled. Plus, vga.h is not a common header (not located in
> > include/asm or include/linux) and it contains a lot of declarations and
> > definitions which are irrelevant to most drivers or are already
> > duplicated. This will be messier, I think.
>
> I like to move vga.h to include/video. And yes I like to clean it up. The
> reason is I like to implement the function in vga.h and some in vgastate
> into vgacon.c. It would be nice if vgacon could support different hardware
> states per VC instead of changing every virtual console for everything.
> The other dream is I like to see vgacon become firmware independent.
>
OK.

Tony

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