From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261940AbULMAut (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:50:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262181AbULMAut (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:50:49 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:20148 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261940AbULMAun (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:50:43 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Typo in kernel configuration (xconfig) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:50:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SI1zk9dYxKIaAN+Qxe7Xm5pKC64= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesper Juhl writes: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Danny Beaudoin wrote: > >> Hi! >> If I'm not at the right place, please forward this to the right person. >> >> In Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Support for frame buffer devices: >> "On several non-X86 architectures, the frame buffer device is the >> only way to use the graphics hardware." >> >> This should be 'x86' instead, as in the rest of the description. >> > I don't think you are right. On x86 the framebuffer is not your only > option, and on some non-x86 archs (like alpha for instance - at least > this used to be the case when last I had an alpha box), fb is the > only option. My Alphas all have VGA graphics, with the standard text modes available. Some of the older models may have had other types of graphics. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com