* I have started rewriting this driver as a example of the upcoming new API
* The primary goal is to remove the console code from fbdev and place it
* into fbcon.c. This reduces the code and makes writing a new fbdev driver
* easy since the author doesn't need to worry about console internals. It
* also allows the ability to run fbdev without a console/tty system on top
* of it.
*
* First the roles of struct fb_info and struct display have changed. Struct
* display will go away. The way the the new framebuffer console code will
* work is that it will act to translate data about the tty/console in
* struct vc_data to data in a device independent way in struct fb_info. Then
* various functions in struct fb_ops will be called to store the device
* dependent state in the par field in struct fb_info and to change the
* hardware to that state. This allows a very clean seperation of the fbdev
* layer from the console layer. It also allows one to use fbdev on its own
* which is a bounus for embedded devices. The reason this approach works is
* for each framebuffer device when used as a tty/console device is allocated
* a set of virtual terminals to it. Only one virtual terminal can be active
* per framebuffer device. We already have all the data we need in struct
* vc_data so why store a bunch of colormaps and other fbdev specific data
* per virtual terminal.
* As you can see doing this makes the con parameter pretty much useless
* for struct fb_ops functions, as it should be. Also having struct
* fb_var_screeninfo and other data in fb_info pretty much eliminates the
* need for get_fix and get_var. Once all drivers use the fix, var, and cmap
* fbcon can be written around these fields. This will also eliminate the
* need to regenerate struct fb_var_screeninfo, struct fb_fix_screeninfo
* struct fb_cmap every time get_var, get_fix, get_cmap functions are called
* as many drivers do now.
See skeletonfb.c for further details.
> Anyway, you could apply this patch, for a start. I wish you would be
> a bit more careful about details.
Done. Well the good news is I have aquired more hardware for different
platforms to test my work on :-)
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renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.
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