[pm3fb] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] FB console clears with large white area

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> I found similar with pm2fb; moving the call to register_framebuffer to
> before mode setup caused the kernel to hang. No time in investigate
> further yet.

Search the archives for this mailinglist for "pm3fb questions/problesm".
It was about 10 months ago.

This very problem was mentioned for pm3fb. Answer by James Simmons:

> _set_var must be called before register_framebuffer. Otherwise the machien
> will oops. regsiter_framebuffer calls take_over_console which calls
> fbcon_startup which expects a struct display disp in fb_info to be
> initialized. info->disp is initalized in xxxfb_set_var.

So the initializations I'm doing in pm3fb are mandatory...

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