Re: Latest analog joystick code

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

> If you are talking about set_cursor() one, I believe that you can trigger
> it on up too, as scrollback code is handled from irq/bh context - so
> irqsave in spin_lock_irqsave() takes effect on UP too... But as I do not
> have UP, I cannot verify my suspect (boot with init=/bin/bash, at prompt
> type echo > /dev/tty2, switch to tty2 and back (to hide logo) and then
> do ls -lR / and hold down shift-pgup... if you have non-reentrant accelerated
> driver, it will die in 10 seconds ...).

I tried it with your matroxfb on a 2.2.14 kernel but that is accelerated.
I had no problems. I haven't tried it yet with no acceleration yet. Has
anyone else tried this. 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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