this has the effect of not matching video cards that are not the console,
is that the intent?  if a machine has two video cards, shouldn't ofb
attach to both of them?

on my 9500 that has two video cards but boots with a serial console,
this caused neither card to match.  we should make sure that it's still
possible to run X in this case.  I've done this on sparcs and PCs before
with netbsd, and it's very useful.

-Chuck


On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:32:17PM -0500, Tim Kelly wrote:
> Thanks to Brian Hechinger's observation that his Radeon card was not
> getting a node in Open Firmware, we've uncovered a bug in the attachment
> process of Open Firmware based frame buffers (ofb*). If you have the stock
> video output device and can apply patches, please try the patch at the
> bottom. I am wanting a wider range of boxes to make sure nothing breaks
> with this approach. It also includes code that will get ofb to use 8 point
> font up to and including 1024x768 resolution. So far Brian and I have
> tested this with no ill effects.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> tim