Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:20:56PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > 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.

Thanks, now please tell that Jens, who decided to do this without even
caring for anything else but himself.

And BTW, without builtin fbdev modules, you won't see any boot penguin :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther