Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev broken in current bk for PPC
From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Sep 10 2004 - 03:12:30 EST
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I submited a patch moving offb to the bottom of the Makefile to at
> least restore normal drivers. For ofonly, a bit more hackish, but
Just in case they aren't, vesafb and vga16fb should also be at the bottom, cfr.
the old order in fbmem.c.
> what about failing register_framebuffer for anything but offb ?
Humm, indeed hackerish...
But the advantage of this is that we can finally exercise the failure path of
many frame buffer device drivers in the wild ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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