On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. OTOH, if it has indeed vanished entirely, then maybe we could argue that there can't be any users and therefore it's okay if the driver stops working in F21. Going forward, if the simpledrm stuff ever starts being fully functional, then it should provide a working, if rather crappy, way to get fixed-resolution graphics running on any new-enough system. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
