Re: Framebuffer devices as modules?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:06:53PM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:05:34AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >>Florian Echtler wrote:
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> >>>Hi, I was trying to have fbcon and nvidiafb as modules, however,
> >>>the console stays plain VGA when I load both. fbset complains 
> >>>about "no such device: /dev/fb0".. (the device itself exists, and
> >>>works when everything is compiled into the kernel).
> >>What kernel version are you using?
> >
> >BTW, would it be possible to use the new initramfs infrastructure, to move 
> >the
> >fbdev drivers out of the kernel and into their own initramfs thingy, and 
> >still
> >be able to start them as early as possible ?
> 
> I don't see why not. You can compile fbcon statically, and the drivers as 
> modules.
> Or both fbcon and drivers as modules.

Yeah, well, the constraint is that this is on powerpc, and there is no vgacon
or whatever, and we still like to have debug output as soon as possible.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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