Re: [linux-fbdev] [PATCH] matroxfb as a module (PPC)

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  3 Jan 01 at 10:54, Tom Rini wrote:
> I agree this sounds good.  I just think it's too late to do it now. :)
> 
> The vmode/cmode/vesa number stuff should stick around in 2.4 (it's too late
> now to remove it) but documented as obsolete, and removed in 2.5.

I personally prefer 'video=matrox:vesa:0x105' over 
'video=matrox:1024x768-8', as with matroxfb you can modify this mode with
'left', 'right', 'fv', 'fh'... options, and without these parameters it is 
unusable on fixed sync monitors (f.e. 'sync' is vital to specify 
sync-on-green feature).

If someone will create modedb, which will allow specifying all parameters
of fb_var_screeninfo, I'll remove this parsing code from matroxfb. But 
without it I think that 'vesa' will survive forever... And as I can test
only vga16fb and matroxfb, I'm not probably right one to do this.
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                                                    Petr Vandrovec
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