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| author | Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com> | 2026-05-02 21:56:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2026-05-20 20:23:32 +0200 |
| commit | 37a91b995952a556a6eb90c31736ee773b86999c (patch) | |
| tree | 1bb9ea50bf1452fb73ca72a2dfa13af6ef44dd26 /CREDITS | |
| parent | 5200f5f493f79f14bbdc349e402a40dfb32f23c8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-history-37a91b995952a556a6eb90c31736ee773b86999c.tar.gz | |
fbdev: remove Hercules monochrome ISA graphics adapter driver
The hgafb driver supports graphics adapters compatible with the Hercules
adapter from 1984. These were ISA cards or onboard devices that supported
monochrome 720x348 graphics. This driver was created in 1999 by Ferenc Bakonyi.
In the entire Git history (since Linux 2.6.12-rc2), there has only been one
commit in 2010 which indicated that the driver was in use, commit 529ed806d454
("video: Fix the HGA framebuffer driver"). The commit message states:
Only tested with fbcon, since most fbdev-based software appears
to only support 12bpp and up. It does not appear that this driver has
worked for at least the entire 2.6.x series, perhaps since 2002.
Given the age and limited capabilities of the hardware and the lack of
users, remove this driver and move the former maintainer to CREDITS.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'CREDITS')
| -rw-r--r-- | CREDITS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ S: Hauptstrasse 19 S: 79837 St. Blasien S: Germany +N: Ferenc Bakonyi +D: Hercules graphics adapter framebuffer driver + N: Krishna Balasubramanian E: balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu D: Wrote SYS V IPC (part of standard kernel since 0.99.10) |