Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:37PM +, TJ wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:59 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The options are passed to it by modprobe, based on command-line parameters > > and its configuration files, either in early userspace (initramfs) or from > > an init script. > > > >

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread TJ
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:59 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The options are passed to it by modprobe, based on command-line parameters > and its configuration files, either in early userspace (initramfs) or from > an init script. > It seems that it doesn't parse the kernel command line as a module

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:11:50PM +, TJ wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > The argument handling is done differently for the modular case; elsewhere in > > the file you'll find module_param macros for that purpose. > > > > In that case (compiled as a mod

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread TJ
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The argument handling is done differently for the modular case; elsewhere in > the file you'll find module_param macros for that purpose. > In that case (compiled as a module) the i810fb driver uses module_param(). One of the circumsta

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:33:35PM +, TJ wrote: > I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 > chipsets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). > > The reason i810fb (and most other framebuffers) isn't available at > boot-time when compiled as a module is that the framebuf

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:38:18PM +, TJ wrote: > I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 > chip-sets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). > > I've documented my research in this Ubuntu bug report: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fbset/+bug/64666 > > T

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread TJ
I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 chip-sets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). I've documented my research in this Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fbset/+bug/64666 The reason i810fb (and most other framebuffers) isn't available at bo

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread TJ
I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 chipsets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). The reason i810fb (and most other framebuffers) isn't available at boot-time when compiled as a module is that the framebuffer drivers have to call drivers/video/fbmem.c's fb_get_optio