[Cbe-oss-dev] What changed in the ps3fb in firmware 2.50?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dan Munckton wrote:
> Another issue I'm investigating in Ubuntu is why the boot splash screen
> locks up the machine.
> 
> It mysteriously stopped working just after I upgraded to PS3 Firmware
> 2.50. I wasn't able to find any reason for the problem in updates to
> it's dependencies. I noticed ps3vram broke and had to be updated about
> the same time [0].
>
> Can anyone summarise what it was that changed?
> 
> Dan
> 
> [0] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2008-November/005780.html

In ps3vram, the NOTIFIER value was changed from 8 to 7.

The standard ps3fb doesn't touch the notifiers. Does Ubuntu use a modified one?

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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