Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 5 authors, 2004-11-06

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: workaround for broken X servers

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2004-11-06 03:06:47

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:02 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
Currently, fbcon_blank() does the first method (pass blank unchanged),
which means radeonfb is wrong. Adopting the second method will make
radeonfb do the right thing, but will require changes to a lot of drivers.

So, what will it be then?
I'd rather define FB_BLANK_* constants and convert all drivers... the
conversion is trivial.

Ben.




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