Re: fbdev upstream

Of course, that means we'll have to update more drivers, and platforms
with fixed display, like embedded etc... will need some way to deal
with that properly in their drivers.

Fixed screen size drivers should provide there own modedb. 

I don't know about that one. It would be interesting to redo some
comparison between XFree CVS "nv" driver and rivafb. I don't have any
nvidia HW at hand for now though. 

The changes have been alot. It would require me reworking the driver 
again.

Also, we just completely lack proper locking, we should at least take
the console semaphore around all these operations, which we don't do
and thus are racy as hell... the HW cursor and blanking timers are
by definition racy too, we need to fix that some way.

The fbcon system has always lacked locking :-( Now it can be fixed.
k



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