Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] The future of framebuffer

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:40:27 +0200, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:45:24PM +0400, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> > You problem here is only with the fonts, why not use modular fonts that can be
> > loaded, or even fonts provided by a userland app ?
> > 
> Unfortunately - linux documentations lacks (or hides) such information.
> Could you send me URL, please?

Font loading behaves the same with or witout fbdev. So look up the generic
console documentation.

> > > In addition it will give possibility to update such drivers without updating
> > > the kernel and vice versa.
> > 
> > I can already do that, Or do you think i need to rebuild the kernel each time
> > i change a line in some fbdev driver code ?
> > 
> When I'd write a little Makefile for my tiny driver then I'd got such possibility too.
> If you are developer therefore you have no such problems but many users use
> only stable Linus kernels and they will never install even -pre.X kernel on their computers.

What has this to do with -pre.X kernels? It's been working since ages.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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