Rational for having CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

I can do a `modprobe radeon` just fine, thanks to this patch. A
similar patch needs to be applied for `radeonfb` now. I'll work on it
ASAP.

-M