2010/3/11 Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net>: > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:10 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, James Simmons <jsimm...@infradead.org> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> See my other post about what fbdev really means in its historical >> >> context. The struct fb_info really maps better to drm_crtc than to >> >> drm_framebuffer. In fact take the case of the matrox fbdev driver. It >> >> creates two framebuffer devices even tho it used one static framebuffer. >> >> What the driver does is splits the framebuffer in two and assigned each >> >> part to a CRTC. >> > >> > The only problem with that is that it eats a lot of memory for the >> > console which limits X when it starts. On cards with limited vram , >> > you might not have enough memory left for any meaningful acceleration >> > when X starts. >> >> It would be nice to find a way to reclaim the console memory for X, >> but I'm not sure that can be done and still provide a good way to >> provide oops support. > > What do you think the average user will care about more? > > * Seeing kernel oops/panic output about once in a lifetime. > * Being able to start/use X in the first place and enabling it to > use all of VRAM. > > Personally, I've never even seen any kernel oops/panic output despite > numerous opportunities for that in the couple of months I've been using > KMS. But I have spent considerable time and effort trying to get rid of > the pinned fbcon BO. If the oops/panic output is the only thing > preventing that, maybe that should only be enabled via some module > option for developers.
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