newcons fb driver

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAJ-Vmo=jCGUxXs_GBoCm581wTouozWE=AQ3x1wBKYM_J3_dGrg at mail.gmail.com>
, Adrian Chadd writes:

>.. i'm pretty sure there was a reason for why it's done in byte sizes.
>Maybe speak to phk?

Buggy video hardware, which does not do larger writes correctly,
the most recent one being an Intel Laptop, but I can't remember which.

At the very least, byte writes needs to be a boot-time option.

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