Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:59:35 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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Hi!
> > > That works great on x86, but this solution was developed for PowerPC and > > > MIPS embedded systems development not x86 desktop systems. For those > > > platforms you either need a boot loader that can bring up the system into > > > graphics mode (possible with U-Boot) or to init the video right when the > > > framebuffer console driver is brought up. > > > > Right there are certainly cases where you need to do stuff very > > early. Even then you may benefit because you can keep the kernel > > side init pretty basic and also marked "__init" so it is freed post > > boot. > > 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. > > I should probably look into that.
On any machine trying to do suspend-to-RAM, that POST code is likely to be needed for suspend, too. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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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