Mark (markg85@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > AFAIK, we don't ship the tools for uvesafb, so it's a little late for > > it to be a successor. How does it execute them if it's built-in, anyway? > > uvesafb just got included in the 2.6.24 which isn't even final yet so > it's not 'late'.. more early than late. Sorry, meant 'too early', without the userspace part. > To execute.. Quote from [1]: > "add video=uvesafb:1024x768-32,mtrr:3,ywrap (or similar) to your > kernel command line" Right, but how does that work if built-in static? Is it relying on initialization order vs. initramfs unpacking to find its userspace component? Is it just spinning waiting for userspace? > About the question: > "But who wwould maintain the v86d userspace code package if we enabled the > driver?" > > I'm willing to give it a shot with the help of someone that has > experience in making spec files. (i have the links to the (old) > handbooks.. just not the experience) > > [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/ This includes Yet Another Pasted In Copy of x86emu and lrmi. Ick. We really need to get a single libx86 in the distro and have things using it. Bill _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
