From: David M. <da...@da...> - 2007-05-16 21:47:34
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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <ad...@gm...> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 05:17:34 +0800 > From: Krzysztof Helt <krz...@wp...> > > This patch puts all SBUS/UPA selection under one option "SBUS/UPA > framebuffers" and moves all sparc specific drivers next to them > in one group. > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krz...@wp...> > Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <ad...@gm...> Thanks for cleaning this up. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@da...> On a related note I've been trying to figure out how to solve a particular issue on sparc, perhaps you can help? The firmware has properties that we could use to determine exactly which framebuffer device is being used as the console in multi-head situations. Currently there is no easy way to make use of that so the user just gets whatever the framebuffer device probing order gives them which isn't nice and is often wrong. One idea I have is to provide a way to set some flag in the fbinfo. The flag would indicate that this framebuffer should be used as the primary console by default. Command line options et al. could of course override this. In this way sparc framebuffers could see if a device is the one the "output-device" firmware property points to, and if so it would set the flag. What do you think about this? |