Re: About fb

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:42:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Marc Mutz wrote:
> bluexiao wrote:
> >
> > With 2.3 development, is it have a plan writing module_fb can load in
> > runtime ?
> That would be hard to do since you need the console driver the whole
> time the box runs.

You don't need a VGA/fb console driver the whole time. The serial console
driver or even the dummy console driver are sufficient.

The reason fbcon is not loadable is that no one ever worked on that :-)

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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