Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jun 14 13:26:11 AEST 2016


On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 17:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> 2. Try to fix `radeonfb` so that it is able to kick offb out of the
> way. Eg: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-August/002907.html
> 
> From my understanding it would make sense to go for (2), since it
> would allow for proper support for CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m on PowerMac. In
> this case, would such patch be accepted ?

Sounds like the right fix to me. Ben's patch above was merged, so it's supposed
to kick out offb AFAICS, the fact that it can't seems like a bug.

cheers



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