Let's bring linux-fbdev in the loop, as they probably are the best placed to comment.
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:26:18AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > the following patch allows some accelerated framebuffers (aty128fb, > atyfb, radeonfb, and rivafb) and framebuffer console support itself to > be built as modules on ppc. Tested on a Powerbook Pismo, works very > well including XFree86 and DRI. > > The first hunk suppresses a warning only, not sure about it. Jens, i am not sure of the wisdom of pursuing this way. I know that modularizing stuff and even fbdev drivers is a good thing, but i also know that you plan to use this to modularize most fbdevs out of the debian powerpc kernel. I wonder at the implications, since modular fbdevs are loaded well later than non-modular ones, and we thus lose lots of early log messages, which may be ok for us hackers with a serial console ready to catch them, but may be a nightmare for general users of the debian powerpc package, not to speak about us who will have to do the support job on those. linux-fbdev folk, what is your take on this, would it be possible to somehow get a way to have earlier debug messages, or to bring the loading of fbdev modules to an earlier point ? Benh, where you working on something such ? I think i remember something about this mentioned. Or maybe i am wrong, and using a modular fbdev on a not offb supporting powerpc is just fine. Friendly, Sven Luther
