UVESAFB in kernel 2.6.24

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 01/08/2008 09:30 AM, Mark wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just downloaded and installed the latest kernel rpm from koji [1]
> but found out that uvesafb isn't enabled in the fedora kernels. Could
> a kernel maintainer put the following value in the config-generc:
> 
> CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y
> 
> so that uvesafb is enabled in the next build?
> more information about uvesafb can be found here [2].
> 
> Thanx,
> Mark
> 
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30342
> [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
> 

I can actually see a use for this: debugging video BIOS code could be much
easier.

But who wwould maintain the v86d userspace code package if we enabled the
driver?