On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 15:58, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > possible as modules. The idea was to build only offb into the kernel, > > > and load the accelerated framebuffers as modules if desired. > > > Unfortunately, this didn't work out for radeonfb, aty128fb and atyfb, > > > and I am still testing rivafb but strongly suspect it is not going to > > > work as a module either. > > > > Yes, unfortunately, IDE and fbdev's arent" good module citizens at this > > point. This will get better over time (read 2.7 :) > > Only for powerpc, or in general?
In general, though it's made worse on ppc for various reasons > Maybe you need at least one full featured fbdev built in, and offb just > doesn't qualify (no way to give up virtual consoles)? There is no proper giveup mecanism between offb and another fbdev > I´m glad to hear something is being done about IDE though. I'm really > missing the hotplug features of the mediabay drives on other machines. > Speaking of IDE: 2.6 still has a bug WRT mediabay and defvs on device > removal - even with no media inserted, the mediabay remove triggers a > devfs device remove for a nonexisting device. Panic(). Ah... well, devfs is evil :) Still, a full report with trace etc.. to lkml would be useful (CC me) Ben.
