Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:53:46 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] video: uvesafb: Add X86 dependency. |
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > >uvesafb is x86-specific, reflect that in the Kconfig. > > Hummm... uvesafb _shouldn't_ be x86 specific. At least according to > their page [1] where it says: "works on non-x86 systems". > > Uvesafb uses a x86 emulator in userspace to run code from the video card > ROM, so it should work on any PCI system where we can access the video > card ROM and can emulate the hardware used by the ROM code. > > Why do you say that it's x86 specific? Am I missing something? > The emulator it uses only runs on x86 and x86_64. Thus, it's x86 specific. The v86d and uvesafb pages seem to be in disagremeent, unless by 'non-x86' it's only implying x86_64.
Additionally, it needs the vga I/O routines, as per vgacon. Most platforms don't define these. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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