On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:54:22AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. People are using -vesa right now, not uvesafb. > 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. Non-EFI systems are still going to need some mechanism for calling out to userspace for setting a mode. -- 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
