Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:29:51 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [OOPS] 2.5.70-bk15: RadeonFB dies at boot, and is undocumented |
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> With the Radeon framebuffer driver compiled in, 2.5.70-bk15 oopses very > early during the boot process. The oops is visible in text mode but > scrolls off the screen. (I really need to set up a serial console!)
If you see the oops that is good thing. That means the framebuffer driver works.
> [thoffman@torrey fb]$ pwd > /home/archive/Kernels/linux-2.5.70-bk15/Documentation/fb > [thoffman@torrey fb]$ grep radeon * > [thoffman@torrey fb]$ > > There is not a single mention of the radeon driver under Documentation! > Even a 20 line note explaining what the kernel command line format is > would be nice.
No :-(
> PS: Mr. Simmons, I really appreciate your work on the framebuffer and > console subsystem. To make it easier for people to find you, perhaps a > little patch to update your email addresses throughout the code would be > worth while? A quick grep under drivers/video turns up four different > addresses in about a dozen files, hopefully I am sending this email to a > current address: > > jsimmons@users.sf.net > jsimmons@linux-fbdev.org > jsimmons@infradead.org > jsimmons@transvirtual.com
Good point. I will update everything.
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