Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Feature Freeze?

[Antonino D. <ad...@po...>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:57, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > I believe it's time to finalize what is needed/not needed for the
> > framebuffer framework:
> 
> > 1. Text mode support?
> 
> Required by at least davem and petr
> 
> > 2. console resizing using fbset (besides stty)?
> 
> Nice, if it's not too much work.

Adding this shouldn't be too hard.

> 
> > 3. support for unloading of fbcon if modular?

So we just make fbcon permanently loaded unconditionally?  The current
code allows 'rmmod fbcon', but it will freeze the system.

> 0. Update all drivers
> 
> Absolutely required

Yes, which is why we need a feature freeze, so we can spend the rest of
the period on driver updating and bug fixing.

Tony