Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:00:31 -0800 (PST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [STATUS] fbdev api. |
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> Can you apply the following patch to include logo drawing support for all formats :-)?
Applied :-)
> It's not the switch back to text mode, that's very doable (see my other > reply). It's during give_up_console() at fbcon module exit. At this > point, the console suddenly disappears and freezes the system. Maybe we > can save the global "conswitchp" during fbcon module init, then > something like this at fbcon module exit: > > void __exit fb_console_exit(void) > { > give_up_console(&fbcon); > take_over_console(saved_conswitchp, ...); > } > > Is this feasible?
I thought about it but the solution is not easy. Consider that we have vgacon and mdacon. Then I load in hgafb. Here the goal is to take over mdacon. So we have to prevent taking over vgacon. Since there is only on conswitchp we are in trouble.
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