Re: vgacon fixes to help font restauration in X11

From: Egbert Eich
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 03:33:51 EST


Alan Cox writes:
> On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 14:29, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > OK, sounds promising. The changed Xserver pieces are in HEAD of the
> > X.Org tree. I'll see that I make the necessary adjustments to have
> > a soft detection if you can give me a version number of the kernel
> > which will have the new features.
>
> Send a copy directly to torvalds@xxxxxxxx and akpm@xxxxxxxx for merging.
> It looks fine to me. You'll need to include a "Signed-off-by: .." line
> to indicate you are submitting it and have the rights to do so. You can
> tag it with "Approved-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>".

Thanks, I will do that.
I have attached the patch for kernel version detection to the
freedesktop.org bugzilla (#2277) assuming this feature will be
in the kernel starting with version 2.6.11.

>
> If you mention you need to know what kernel merges it for the X11 check
> I'm sure you'll get an answer.
>

OK, will do.

Thanks!
Egbert.
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