Re: 2.6.5-rc3-ben0 freezes on old iBook
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 04:49, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> The thing is that Sven Luther and myself are currently putting
> together 2.6 kernel-image packages for powerpc. In order to cut down
> the size of the kernels, we are trying to build as many drivers as
> possible as modules. The idea was to build only offb into the kernel,
> and load the accelerated framebuffers as modules if desired.
> Unfortunately, this didn't work out for radeonfb, aty128fb and atyfb,
> and I am still testing rivafb but strongly suspect it is not going to
> work as a module either.
Yes, unfortunately, IDE and fbdev's arent" good module citizens at this
point. This will get better over time (read 2.7 :)
Pretty much everything else should be fine.
Ben.
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