> On Wed, 22 September 2010 James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This year someone said he/she would look at making it possible to have > > > multiple concurrently active consoles on distinct framebuffers. > > > Hopefully something is happening on that front (that would certainly > > > also include some fbcon cleanup) > > > > That would be me. > > Thanks for showing up (I didn't find the matching thread, probably > subject and my search terms were no good friends :) No problem. > > I have a tree at > > > > http://git.infradead.org/users/jsimmons/linuxconsole-2.6.git > > > > but currently fbcon is broken so I'm tracing down the problem. > > Thanks for the reference to your tree! > > What's you opinion regarding my changes to fbcon in my RFC patch? > Are they ok or would you prefer having fbcon changed to stop peeking > at registered_fb list and just operate directly on fb_info everywhere > it needs it? (that is let con2fb_map[] point to fb_info instead of > indexes into registered_fb? (I have a preference for the second one > and will try it out) I'm aiming to kill off registered_fb. I agree that fb_info should be used directly and we can avoid the ref-count. As for con2fb_map that is a little more complex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
