[herbert@gondor.apana.org.au: Re: Bug#161931: kernel-image-2.4.19-k7: VESA driver for console]
See below. I claim Herbert Xu to decide not reasonable in this issue,
working against §4 of the social contract. Please decide wise and force
him to change the current situation.
See also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=161931&repeatmerged=yes
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=134220&repeatmerged=yes
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=104101&repeatmerged=yes
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123987&repeatmerged=yes
Regards,
Eduard.
----- Forwarded message from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> -----
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:14:58 +1000
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: Bug#161931: kernel-image-2.4.19-k7: VESA driver for console
To: 161931-quiet@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@bugs.debian.org
reassign 161931 kernel
merge 104101 161931
quit
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>
> Oh Herbert, we have had this discussion in the past. There is no real
> reason for not using VESA framebuffer. It does not hurt (*). It is not
> enabled by default. It just uses few kilobytes of the kernel image,
> space that almost nobody would cry about. And without VESA fb in the
> kernel, people would see a black screen after changing from some custom
> kernel to one of yours.
I have made my position quite clear. The more you bitch about it,
the lower this gets on my todo list.
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