Re: [ANNOUCE] fbdev changes finished.

[Russell K. <rm...@ar...>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:38:37AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
>   I like to annouce that I just finished the final fbdev changes. They are
> in the BK repository bk://fbdev.bkbits.net/fbdev-2.5. The changes are
> 
> 1) Removal of all console related code in the lower level drivers. Smaller
>    easier to program drivers.
> 
> 2) Now you can use the framebuffer driver WITHOUT framebuffer console.
>    Last night I built a kernel with MDA console and used the VESA
>    framebuffer by itself. Now you can easily debug new framebuffer
>    drivers. The real bonus is for embedded systems you have much smaller
>    kernels.
> 
> 3) I moved the agp and drm code into drivers/video. I did NOT place any
>    drm code with framebuffer code at people's request. I simiple moved the
>    directory from one spot to another. The main reason I did this was
>    because some framebuffer drivers will need to use the agp code initialized
>    before the framebuffer layer. The DRM code was moved because it makes
>    sense to move it there.
> 
> 4) I cleaned up the config.in for all the video stuff across all
>    platforms.
> 
> You can grab the lastest BK tree at
> 
> bk://fbdev.bkbits.net/fbdev-2.5
> 
> Give it a try. For people who want a diff it is avaiable at
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz

... which is not representative of the changes.

Can you _please_ take much more care over patches and such like and take
the time to get them correct _please_.

I really don't like patches that float around that unintentionally delete
other peoples drivers for no reason.

-- 
Russell King (rm...@ar...)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html