Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [PATCH] fbdev updates.

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

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:05:40PM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> > > 2. I've no idea why you moved "lccr0" and "lccr3" in sa1100fb.h - this
> > >    looks like noise to me.
> > 
> > Ah the idea of a par and using generic struct fb_info. A few reasons. One
> > I noticed people having fields inside their struct xxxfb_info that was
> > already there in the generic struct fb_info. By making a strick rule I
> > hope to avoid that ugly mess. The second reason is eventually I like to
> > combine DRI and the fbdev layer. This was both interfaces could use the
> > same struct xxx_par. That is a 2.7 thing but I like to prepare now for
> > this. For the SA1100 this is not really needed but I still like to enforce
> > this rule and we still can take advantage of the nice generic functions in
> > fbgen.c.
> 
> First, I detest the idea of "fix", "var", "par" and "info".  Specifically
> the "par" crap.  Intensely.  "par" and "info" should be combined IMO,
> which my framebuffer drivers do.

If you have an `asymmetric' dual-head chipset (both heads are not independent,
and/or have different capabilities), you'll have 2 info structures, with one
shared par. So info and par cannot be combined.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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