Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:34:31 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-10-15 at 23:27, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Right. I haven't yet figured out how to mark the code as __init so it can > get tossed out, although if we use the VESA driver after the fact you > would want to keep it around in that case. But to just boot the card and > use say the Radeon FB driver it would be nice to toss out the code.
Every function that starts __init, and every data object starting __initdata gets magically blown away at the end of boot.
ie
int __init messy_horrible_boot_function(blah)
> Also is it possible to run X on a machine that is running from a serial > console and have it start up on the graphics card at that point? I
Yes
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