On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > Does uvesafb actually work? I submitted a patch to the uvesafb kernel > driver a few months back, and not only is the upstream link [1][2] to > the v86d helper dead, but no one on the dri-devel list answered my > request to see if anyone had a copy. Fedora does not appear to > package a copy (at least yum whatprovides '*/v86d' doesn't come up > with anything). This means that I got a patch into upstream drm and > that it's quite possible that no one (or maybe a grand total of one > person) has ever tested. It'd be pretty straightforward to re-implement the helper if it's vanished entirely - we haven't retired libx86, and the rest is pretty trivial. > Or do you mean the older pre-uvesafb driver? That's problematic from the "You have to provide a fixed resolution on the kernel command line" perspective. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
