Re: fbdev upstream
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2004-01-06 10:08:09
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 11:51, James Simmons wrote:quoted
quoted
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.Or just single mode... currently drivers don't export a modedb, they keep one internally and do the validation... though it would make sense to expose a modedb to userland, so we can have some nice GUI tools showing you the available modes :) It would make sense for MacOnLinux too which currently rely on the user to setup the list of modes available to MacOS.
And how to export it? Sysfs again, I guess...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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