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Shawn Leas

More options 28 Sep 1998, 08:00

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From: sl...@ixion.honeywell.com (Shawn Leas)

Date: 1998/09/28

Subject: Re: 2.1.123 and fbcon.c

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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Serguei Koubouchine wrote:
> > On 28 Sep 1998, Michael Harnois wrote:
> > > Am I the only one for whom 2.1.123 fbcon.c doesn't compile?

> > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/src/linux-2.1.108/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=pentium -DCPU=586 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c fbcon.c
> > > fbcon.c: In function `fbcon_setup':
> > > fbcon.c:505: too few arguments to function `set_palette'
> > > fbcon.c: In function `fbcon_scroll':
> > > fbcon.c:1016: `SM_LEFT' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > fbcon.c:1016: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > > fbcon.c:1016: for each function it appears in.)
> > > fbcon.c:1021: `SM_RIGHT' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > > make[3]: *** [fbcon.o] Error 1

> > This is broken since 2.1.122 through 123pre1-3 and ac2. But this is not the
> > end of the whole story, when you're through this, the kernel won't link
> > because of missing external variable initmem_freed ... A patch
> > (initmem_freed stuff is done for i386 only) follows...

> Please don't waste your time on creating these patches. These things are
> functional in the vger tree (ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS).

Linus: Please please please please please sync the official tree
up with vger, I and many others can't use CVS, and it seems
that it is increasingly the only way to get a functional kernel
with framebuffer support.

Screw it, maybe I'll just hack a shell acct somewhere and CVS
from somewhere else.

-Shawn
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