newcons fb driver

[Adrian Chadd]

On 2 March 2014 22:52, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 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.

Is there a way to detect this? Ie, writing to video memory and then
reading it back a byte at a time to see if the patterns match?


-a