On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:45 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] > > > This, combined with the fact that lxfb recently started to ship as a > > > compiled-in feature, rather than as a module, > > > > It looks like lxfb was always built-in on the 486 flavour and modular > > on the 686 flavour, so this change results from the removal of the 686 > > flavour. I don't see any good reason for the difference and I think > > it should be modular on 486 too. (Also, I notice that the Geode > > framebuffer drivers are enabled on the 686-pae flavour, which doesn't > > run on any of the Geode SoCs!) > > I'd certainly prefer it to be modular. Module autoloading happens > properly thanks to the video chip being a (virtual) PCI device. [...] So long as it's not blacklisted, which it is by default (/etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf). Anyway, I think this means that you'll both be happy if I make it modular. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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