[PATCH v2 03/14] x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers

Hi Any comments on this? On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on > x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global > "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which

Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers

Hi Any comments on this? On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM, David Herrmann dh.herrm...@gmail.com wrote: The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global struct screen_info does not provide any

[PATCH v2 03/14] x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers

The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global "struct screen_info" does not provide any state-tracking about which drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but unfortunately

[PATCH v2 03/14] x86: provide platform-devices for boot-framebuffers

The current situation regarding boot-framebuffers (VGA, VESA/VBE, EFI) on x86 causes troubles when loading multiple fbdev drivers. The global struct screen_info does not provide any state-tracking about which drivers use the FBs. request_mem_region() theoretically works, but unfortunately