Re: Patch in 2.2.18pre21 breaks fbcon logo

James Simmons (jsimmons@transvirtual.com)
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:15:56 -0700 (PDT)


> The following patch that appeared in 2.2.18pre21 breaks the fbcon logo.
> Anyone knows what it was for?

Because con_switch for fbcon can change the video mode. set_palette often
depends on what the state of the graphics hardware is in. So set_palette
must come after the con_switch. Unfortunely the display logo code depended
on this flaw. It was fixed tho in the 2.4.X tree with new logo code.

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