Re: 2.5: ieee1394 still broken, vesafb still broken, ipv6 still

[James Simmons]

>   vesafb is told to go to 1024x768-32, does so, but then reads from my
>     TFT display that 1600x1200 is the native resolution and then thinks
>     that is the resolution it is using (even fbset says so).  The result
>     is that I can only see the upper half of my screen, and the display
>     is garbled to boot because the line length is too large, meaning
>     writing something in the right half of the 1600x1200 screen results
>     in overwriting something on the left of my real 1024x768 screen.

The EDID blocks often return the wrong data. The fix for now is to remove 
the edid code. I will passing it to Linus soon.