Re: [PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations

2015-02-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
be #if !defined(CONFIG_BREAK_SOME_HARDWARE_BUT_VGA_SCROLLING_WILL_BE_IMMEASURABLY_FASTER). All distros on 1 out of 29 architectures? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations

Re: [PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations

2015-02-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix support for PCI domains

2010-08-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: Intel KMS + fbcon + Mplayer

2009-04-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
). That must be a bug in mplayer, as var.bits_per_pixel = 32. If there's no transparency, it's correct to hav var.transp.length = 0 . The additional 8 bits may be unused. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32

Re: [PATCH 1/3] allow console unregistration

2007-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
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Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
CLUT256 visual (but only 255 colors, because of the color key) with a truecolor RGB888 visual. E.g. the Matrox Millennium can do this, and IIRC at least Accelerated X supports it. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
think of is that the radeon hardware can control which nibble is used in 4bpp. I'd say if you need that kind of This is something completely different, since each nibble is a different pixel. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
. Feel free to add them. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] CRTC scanout buffer types

2005-08-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: [PATCH] DRM depends on ???

2005-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Kyle Moffett wrote: On May 29, 2005, at 15:58:10, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: What Kyle said is the correct answer... we either keep this lovely construct (I'll add a comment for 2.6.13) or we go back to the old intermodule or module_get stuff... DRM built

Re: [PATCH] DRM depends on ???

2005-05-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something

[PATCH] DRM depends on ???

2005-05-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
DRM depending on `AGP=n' is driving me crazy! How to make CONFIG_DRM not eligible for selection on platforms that do not have AGP? Since many of the core DRM files depend on PCI, add a dependency on PCI, to minimize the damage. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux

[PATCH] 3dfx DRM depends on PCI

2005-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
3dfx DRM depends on PCI Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig 2005-01-22 09:28:00.0 +0100 +++ linux-m68k-2.6.12-rc1/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig 2005-01-17 22:51:02.0 +0100 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ config DRM config

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures memory mapping)

2005-03-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
to synchronize accelerator and direct framebuffer access. Really? I was always given Matrox as an example of a card that would lock up if you access the frame buffer while the accelerator is busy... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures memory mapping)

2005-03-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
there's no way for the application to ask for a minimum amount of off-screen memory. Perhaps a new field in fb_var_screeninfo (and zero means `I don't care', for backwards compatibility). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] New kernel API for ROMs

2004-08-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
the maximum size of a PCI ROM? Larger than kmalloc() can handle? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker

[PATCH] depends on PCI: ATI Rage 128 and Radeon DRM

2004-07-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ATI Rage 128 and Radeon DRM unconditionally depend on PCI Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.8-rc2/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig2004-07-15 23:14:12.0 +0200 +++ linux-m68k-2.6.8-rc2/drivers/char/drm/Kconfig 2004-07-19 18:15:58.0 +0200 @@ -31,7

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Current discussion about the future of free software graphics

2004-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
under LinuxBIOS and such and app would be useful for me. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Current discussion about the future of free software graphics

2004-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
) has been working fine on my PPC box since 1998. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Current discussion about the future of free software graphics

2004-05-12 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Current discussion about the future of free software graphics

2004-05-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
-fbdev-devel is also frequented by people from platforms without DRI. And there we see a communication problem again: the DRI was started without talking to fbdev people, IIRC... Please unite our forces! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface

2004-05-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

[Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface

2004-05-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
we need bus probing before we can detect graphics cards. If you really need kernel messages earlier, you have to fallback to vgacon (ugh), a serial console, or an early boot console (like PPC BTEXT). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven

[Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface

2004-05-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say programmer or something like

[Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface

2004-05-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
correct me if I'm wrong ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just