I have a new patch avaiable. It is against 2.5.50. The patch is at
http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz
Have fun!!!!
Drivers ported are: (Give them a try)
ATI Mach 64
ATI 128
VESA
VGA16
HGA
NIVIDA
NEOMAGIC
The BIG changes are:
1) The seperation of the console code out of the fbdev drivers.
2) Total modularity of the frmaebuffer console system. Yes that is
right. You can build it has modules. Great for testing.
The following are results of the new changes which I have tested.
With my VIA laptop with my neomagic card I was able to build it with
vgacon and no fbcon. Then I insmod neofb and the soft accel (cfb*.c)
needed. It loading and did NOT change the video hardware state. At this
point I could run fbdev apps including a X server using /dev/fb solely.
On opening /dev/fb0 the graphics hardware state changed. In theory I could
exit X and get vgacon back. In order to do this I have to reset the
hardware back to vga text mode in the fb_release function. It can be done
but I haven't done it yet.
With the second experiment I was able to insmod the fonts and fbcon.o.
Then it switched from vgacon to fbcon. In theory I could again call the
release function and reset the hardware back to a text mode state. All
that is needed is the hardware specific code to do this.
Things to be done:
1) A few bugs in fbcon to hammer out.
2) Fbcon to support changing resolution via the console layer.
3) Move the logo code out of fbcon.c to fbmem.c. With pure fbdev
you need something to let you know things worked.
4) Software rotation.
The diffstat is:
CREDITS | 10
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 4
Documentation/fb/README-sstfb.txt | 173
Documentation/fb/internals.txt | 5
Documentation/fb/sstfb.txt | 174
MAINTAINERS | 7
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 31
arch/arm/Kconfig | 21
arch/i386/Kconfig | 55
arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.s | 114
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 25
arch/m68k/Kconfig | 7
arch/m68knommu/Kconfig | 35
arch/mips/Kconfig | 62
arch/mips64/Kconfig | 23
arch/parisc/Kconfig | 30
arch/ppc/Kconfig | 22
arch/ppc64/Kconfig | 7
arch/sh/Kconfig | 55
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 16
arch/sparc64/Kconfig | 11
arch/v850/Kconfig | 35
arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 55
drivers/Makefile | 3
drivers/char/Makefile | 2
drivers/char/consolemap.c | 5
drivers/char/keyboard.c | 1
drivers/char/mem.c | 12
drivers/char/selection.c | 1
drivers/char/toshiba.c | 2
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 7
drivers/char/vc_screen.c | 1
drivers/char/vt.c | 200 -
drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 58
drivers/video/68328fb.c | 967 +----
drivers/video/Kconfig | 411 --
drivers/video/Makefile | 54
drivers/video/S3triofb.c | 2
drivers/video/amifb.c | 2
drivers/video/anakinfb.c | 62
drivers/video/atafb.c | 2
drivers/video/aty/atyfb.h | 18
drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c | 99
drivers/video/aty/mach64_ct.c | 2
drivers/video/aty/mach64_cursor.c | 157
drivers/video/aty/mach64_gx.c | 2
drivers/video/aty128fb.c | 3238 +++++++----------
drivers/video/cfbcopyarea.c | 511 +-
drivers/video/cfbfillrect.c | 536 ++
drivers/video/cfbimgblt.c | 360 +
drivers/video/chipsfb.c | 2
drivers/video/clps711xfb.c | 16
drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 221 +
drivers/video/console/Makefile | 61
drivers/video/console/dummycon.c | 73
drivers/video/console/fbcon-sti.c | 289 +
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2725 ++++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/fbcon.h | 142
drivers/video/console/font.h | 53
drivers/video/console/font_6x11.c | 3351 +++++++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_8x16.c | 4631 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_8x8.c | 2583 +++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_acorn_8x8.c | 277 +
drivers/video/console/font_mini_4x6.c | 2158 +++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_pearl_8x8.c | 2587 +++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_sun12x22.c | 6220 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/video/console/font_sun8x16.c | 275 +
drivers/video/console/fonts.c | 142
drivers/video/console/mdacon.c | 631 +++
drivers/video/console/newport_con.c | 745 +++
drivers/video/console/prom.uni | 11
drivers/video/console/promcon.c | 605 +++
drivers/video/console/sti.h | 289 +
drivers/video/console/sticon.c | 214 +
drivers/video/console/sticore.c | 601 +++
drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 1066 +++++
drivers/video/controlfb.c | 499 --
drivers/video/cyberfb.c | 2
drivers/video/dnfb.c | 18
drivers/video/dummycon.c | 74
drivers/video/epson1355fb.c | 2
drivers/video/fbcmap.c | 92
drivers/video/fbcon-accel.c | 188
drivers/video/fbcon-accel.h | 34
drivers/video/fbcon-afb.c | 448 --
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb16.c | 319 -
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb2.c | 225 -
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb24.c | 333 -
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb32.c | 305 -
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb4.c | 229 -
drivers/video/fbcon-cfb8.c | 294 -
drivers/video/fbcon-hga.c | 253 -
drivers/video/fbcon-ilbm.c | 296 -
drivers/video/fbcon-iplan2p2.c | 476 --
drivers/video/fbcon-iplan2p4.c | 497 --
drivers/video/fbcon-iplan2p8.c | 534 --
drivers/video/fbcon-mfb.c | 217 -
drivers/video/fbcon-sti.c | 337 -
drivers/video/fbcon-vga-planes.c | 387 --
drivers/video/fbcon.c | 2509 -------------
drivers/video/fbgen.c | 286 -
drivers/video/fbmem.c | 233 -
drivers/video/fm2fb.c | 17
drivers/video/font_6x11.c | 3351 -----------------
drivers/video/font_8x16.c | 4631 ------------------------
drivers/video/font_8x8.c | 2583 -------------
drivers/video/font_acorn_8x8.c | 277 -
drivers/video/font_mini_4x6.c | 2158 -----------
drivers/video/font_pearl_8x8.c | 2587 -------------
drivers/video/font_sun12x22.c | 6220 ---------------------------------
drivers/video/font_sun8x16.c | 275 -
drivers/video/fonts.c | 135
drivers/video/g364fb.c | 74
drivers/video/hgafb.c | 424 --
drivers/video/hitfb.c | 17
drivers/video/hpfb.c | 16
drivers/video/igafb.c | 2
drivers/video/imsttfb.c | 41
drivers/video/macfb.c | 22
drivers/video/macmodes.c | 3
drivers/video/macmodes.h | 70
drivers/video/matrox/i2c-matroxfb.c | 2
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c | 4
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_crtc2.c | 4
drivers/video/maxinefb.c | 48
drivers/video/mdacon.c | 632 ---
drivers/video/modedb.c | 7
drivers/video/neofb.c | 389 +-
drivers/video/newport_con.c | 746 ---
drivers/video/offb.c | 23
drivers/video/platinumfb.c | 451 --
drivers/video/pm2fb.c | 2
drivers/video/pm3fb.c | 2
drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c | 59
drivers/video/pmagb-b-fb.c | 53
drivers/video/prom.uni | 11
drivers/video/promcon.c | 606 ---
drivers/video/pvr2fb.c | 4
drivers/video/q40fb.c | 16
drivers/video/radeonfb.c | 3374 ++++++++++-------
drivers/video/retz3fb.c | 2
drivers/video/riva/Makefile | 2
drivers/video/riva/accel.c | 427 --
drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c | 2099 ++++-------
drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.h | 1
drivers/video/riva/rivafb.h | 48
drivers/video/sa1100fb.c | 2
drivers/video/sbusfb.c | 2
drivers/video/sgivwfb.c | 62
drivers/video/sis/Makefile | 2
drivers/video/sis/sis_accel.c | 495 ++
drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c | 2
drivers/video/skeletonfb.c | 28
drivers/video/softcursor.c | 62
drivers/video/sstfb.c | 2
drivers/video/sti-bmode.h | 287 -
drivers/video/sti.h | 289 -
drivers/video/sticon-bmode.c | 895 ----
drivers/video/sticon.c | 215 -
drivers/video/sticore.c | 601 ---
drivers/video/sticore.h | 407 ++
drivers/video/stifb.c | 1403 ++++++-
drivers/video/sun3fb.c | 2
drivers/video/tdfxfb.c | 531 +-
drivers/video/tgafb.c | 2
drivers/video/tridentfb.c | 2
drivers/video/tx3912fb.c | 19
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c | 27
drivers/video/vesafb.c | 24
drivers/video/vfb.c | 38
drivers/video/vga16fb.c | 1368 +++++--
drivers/video/vgacon.c | 1055 -----
drivers/video/virgefb.c | 2
include/linux/console.h | 1
include/linux/console_struct.h | 1
include/linux/fb.h | 207 -
include/linux/radeon.h | 766 ++++
include/linux/radeonfb.h | 15
include/linux/sisfb.h | 58
include/linux/vt_kern.h | 8
include/video/fbcon-afb.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-cfb16.h | 34
include/video/fbcon-cfb2.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-cfb24.h | 34
include/video/fbcon-cfb32.h | 34
include/video/fbcon-cfb4.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-cfb8.h | 34
include/video/fbcon-hga.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-ilbm.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-iplan2p2.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-iplan2p4.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-iplan2p8.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-mac.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-mfb.h | 32
include/video/fbcon-vga-planes.h | 37
include/video/fbcon-vga.h | 32
include/video/fbcon.h | 795 ----
include/video/font.h | 53
include/video/macmodes.h | 70
include/video/neomagic.h | 1
kernel/printk.c | 1
201 files changed, 41728 insertions(+), 47259 deletions(-)
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