From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:15:38 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Change in fbcon API

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
> The internal fbcon API has been changed WRT to the palette
> setting/getting functions.  Below is the message that was posted to
> linux-m68k.  [The driver is now responsible for downscaling the colors,
> which is a Good Thing (tm)].  This change has already hit the VGER
> kernel tree, and should hit Linus' tree in 2.1.116 or 117 (I'm guessing).

Bad luck. Linus said he doesn't want to see any more patches for drivers/video,
except for _one_ large patch just before the release of 2.2 :-(

> I'm going update my fbcon-kgi.c (so it actually works here :-), but I
> won't commit it until this change hits Linus' tree, since that would
> break it for everyone else.

Everyone switch to vger?

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium