From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264263AbUESTeW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 15:34:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264500AbUESTeV (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 15:34:21 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:50960 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264263AbUESTeU (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 15:34:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:34:14 +0100 (BST) From: James Simmons To: David Eger cc: akpm@osdl.org, Linux Frame Buffer Dev , Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB accel capabilities patch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > A month or two ago I noticed that the framebuffer console driver doesn't > know to do proper framebuffer acceleration in Linux 2.6; I've implemented > a solution Geert suggested where each framebuffer driver advertizes its > hardware capabilities via fb_info->flags. Please apply to -mm so I can > get wider testing. > > The patches are at: > > http://www.yak.net/random/fbdev-patches/accel-cap-take2/relative2mainline/ > > The core of these patches is enabling the use of the following flags: > > +/* FBIF = FB_Info.Flags */ > +#define FBIF_MODULE 0x0001 /* Low-level driver is a module */ Ug. You changed that. Could that remain the same. I have a patch coming that fixes the mode setting. It changes alot of the core fbcon.c so I will apply your patch to the fbdev-2.5 tree.