Re: 2.5.22: FB_VESA - early crash in fbcon_cursor()

James Simmons (jsimmons@transvirtual.com)
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:30:18 -0700 (PDT)


> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:15:08AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> > Your right. Alot of people have been bitten by that. Especially since
> > people are so use to manually setting the CFB stuff. Patch applied to BK
> > tree.
> >
> Looks like I was a bit hasty with the patch .. fbcon_accel won't resolve if
> fbcon-accel.c isn't linked in, which in turn won't happen unless
> CONFIG_FBCON_ACCEL is set. Can we just do something like the attached instead
> (in addition to killing the ifdef in fbgen.c..)?

Not just yet. Several fbdev drivers have been converted but a good number
need to ported yet. When we are two thirds of the way done then we can
start building in fbcon-accel.c.

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