Re: frame buffer device

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:21:09 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Joe wrote:
> I was reading the documentation for the Linux kernel framebuffer
> device and it said "IMPORTANT: For 2.1.x kernels, go into the
> Code Maturity Level menu, and enable the prompt for development
> andor incomplete drivers. This is no longer necessary for the
> 2.2.x kernels."

For x86 and Alpha, I would say that vesafb and matroxfb are pretty
stable, atyfb (ATI) mostly stable, but the others are either not stable
or simply don't support x86 platform.

This is changing though ;-)

Jeff

P.S. A good place to address further questions would be the fbdev
mailing list, linux-fbdev@vuser.vu.union.edu

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