Linux 2.6.38-rc6

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 16:43:40 PST 2011


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like nouveafb took over from vesafb. Did you do anything special
>>> to trigger this?
>>
>> No. Just boot the system.
>
> Every boot?
>
> And just out of interest, what happens if you don't have the vesafb
> driver at all?
>

I think this is a race condition somewhere with plymouth getting
access to vesafb before it gets kicked off the hw,

I'm assuming removing the vga= line from the command line will stop it,

Dave.


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