[Bug 1823] Add new framebuffer ioctl to switch video modes

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https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1823

Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> 2011-07-03 19:52:55 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > > a) CPU/BSP specific ioctls should not be part of cpukit.
> > 
> > They already are.

Yeap.

> 
> Which? Except as part of score/cpu, such ioctls would qualify as bugs.
> 
> The appropriate place to put such ioctls is somewhere outside of cpukit.
> 

I do not follow the logic here. I see an API being defined for use in a generic
manner that can be mapped to a CPU/BSP specific manner as needed by that
hardware. I thought this was the whole point in the driver interface.

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