[Linux-fbdev-devel] Fbdev 2.5.49 BK fixes.

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> > Hm. Strange. It should work. Can you get serial console working? 
> 
> Forgot to mention, I've seen message:
> 	fbcon_setup: No support for fontwidth 8
> in /var/log/dmesg. 
> 
> I found this printk() in fbcon_setup(), but i can't even imagine 
> why it happens.

Perfect. I found the problem and I'm about to commit to BK. I posted the 
latest patch against 2.5.49 at

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

> I understand this situation perfectly, looks like it's almost common for
> developers working in "not so importatnt for servers" subsystems :(

:-( Some day that attitude will change.

P.S

    Several drivers have been ported but not all. NVIDIA is still broken 
but I will fix it tonight.