Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

> > Who talked about modularizing all fb drivers for all architectures.  And
> > btw, many architectures have text-only firmware-based consoles that
> > allow early debugging (even long before any fb driver can take over
> > control)
> 
> And many powerpc subarches don't have, nor does m68k or sparc.

So don't modularize fb drivers where it doesn't make sense.  IMHO it
makes a lot of sense to have all fb drivers modular on x86 while it
doesn't e.g. on ppc.

sparc does have a prom console, btw (see arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c)