Re: [linux-fbdev] fbdev vga library...

[James Simmons]

> >  To all driver writers. One of the API changes that did go into the recent
> > developement kernels was a par pointer in fb_info. Don't use xxx_fb_info.
> 
> par is hardware state.

Right. This par is video card dependent. board specific things should go
into here. 

> xxx_fb_info is per-board private driver info.

Per monitor it can display on. Some cards support multiple monitors. This
means one card can support two framebuffers. The question is there a 
condition where per board data in xxx_fb_info can't be placed in par. 

> They are different and you can't get rid of xxx_fb_info.

If you every want to see the seperation of the console code out of the
fbdev drivers you need to do this. 

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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