Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:42:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c |
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.4.03.9809282005090.17348-100000@mercator.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, > Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote: > > > >Please don't waste your time on creating these patches. These things are > >functional in the vger tree (ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS). > > He's not wasting time.
He is.
Besides, his patches were incorrect.
> I have stopped synching up to vger a _long_ time ago. Anybody who still > thinks vger has _any_ relevance to the standard kernel is very much > misguided.
In that case, please disable CONFIG_FB completely on the Intel platform, so I won't see any complaints about it anymore. And be sure 2.2 will support less platforms than 2.0. Other platforms rely on an up-to-date drivers/video.
_I_ am used to getting other patches to make things work on my machines, but unfortunately other's aren't...
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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