Thread (4 messages) flat view 4 messages, 3 authors, 2016-06-14

Re: Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2016-06-14 11:15:29

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 13:26 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
quoted
2. Try to fix `radeonfb` so that it is able to kick offb out of the
way. Eg: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-Augu
st/002907.html

From my understanding it would make sense to go for (2), since it
would allow for proper support for CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m on PowerMac.
In
this case, would such patch be accepted ?
Sounds like the right fix to me. Ben's patch above was merged, so
it's supposed
to kick out offb AFAICS, the fact that it can't seems like a
Make sure you have CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y

Ben.
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