Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:47:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: also frustrated with the framebuffer and your matrox-card in 2.5.53? hack/patch available! |
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> It's rather annoying that in a feature-freeze period a change goes in > that cripples the one framebuffer with the best speed and features - > the matrox framebuffer.
Because a driver has over 10,000 lines of code does not mean it is a quality driver.
> The author mentioned it could be weeks or months > before he would be able to get his matrox framebuffer working with the > new framework, since its simple API doesn't fit the possibilities of the > matrox framebuffer. Read more about it on the fbdev-users or > fbdev-developers mailinglist on sourceforge.
Petr is expressing his political view. It has nothing to do with technical arguments. In fact I place a bet. I will port the matrox driver and it will have the same functionality as the previous driver except for text mode support. If I can't do it I will not only revert the changes but I will give Petr his wetdream. I will start inetergrating vt.c and vt_ioctl.c into each fbdev driver. Each fbdev driver will be its own console system. We will not longer need vt.c and vt_ioctl.c as each driver will have its own version intergated into the driver. Sound fair?
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