Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c, tgafb not working anymore

2005-04-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > JFTR, a few of the TURBOchannel variations of the TGA are supported for > > MIPS, but regrettably the necessary code hasn't been ported from 2.4 to > > 2.6 yet. > > Ok, so that would have increased th

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c, tgafb not working anymore

2005-04-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: > > Although the tgafb driver compiles with the above patch, it shows > similar behaviour as before: The kernel loads, the monitor comes alive > but the screen stays completely blank. > The last kernel that worked was 2.6.8.1. I've tested with 2.6.{9,1

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c, tgafb not working anymore

2005-04-22 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Most people don't have tga hardware. I don't think even most alpha users > have it, and I think it's unheard of outside of alpha. So I'm afraid that > there's not a lot of people around who can debug it without having a very > clear starting point..

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c, tgafb not working anymore

2005-04-22 Thread Tomi Lapinlampi
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:20:30PM +0300, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: > > Actually, I was able to get a clean compile with the patch from > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-alpha&m=111392038121433&w=2 Hi again, Although the tgafb driver compiles with the above patch, it shows similar behaviour a

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c, tgafb not working anymore

2005-04-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > JFTR, a few of the TURBOchannel variations of the TGA are supported for > MIPS, but regrettably the necessary code hasn't been ported from 2.4 to > 2.6 yet. Ok, so that would have increased the testing base by, what? One person or two? I thi

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-22 Thread Tomi Lapinlampi
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:28:58AM +0300, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: > Hi, > > This patch worked, tgafb.c now compiles. However, the compile > fails later: > > ... > CC init/version.o > LD init/built-in.o > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.exit.text' fro

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-22 Thread Tomi Lapinlampi
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:43:54PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:50:34PM +0300, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > 2.6.12-rc3 compile fails in drivers/video/tgafb.c > > > > The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variant Alcor, > > running Debian Sarge, g

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:50:34PM +0300, Tomi Lapinlampi wrote: > > Hi, > > 2.6.12-rc3 compile fails in drivers/video/tgafb.c > > The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variant Alcor, > running Debian Sarge, gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) > > Btw, the tgafb hasn't really worked

2.6.12-rc3 compile failure in tgafb.c

2005-04-21 Thread Tomi Lapinlampi
Hi, 2.6.12-rc3 compile fails in drivers/video/tgafb.c The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variant Alcor, running Debian Sarge, gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8) Btw, the tgafb hasn't really worked on this hardware since 2.6.8.1. I'll be able to run more tests after this one compi