This feature was implemented first in our 2.4.4 kernel tree (module linux-2.4 on the CVS server); it has only lately been added to the recent kernel tree (module linuxppc_2_4_devel).

Ohh, I'll pull the CVS then. I was looking at the linux-2.4.24-2004-02 sources from edlk 3.0 and linux-2.4.4 sources from edlk 2.1 and could not find occurrence of "CONFIG_8xx_PRE_INIT_FB".

No, it has NOT been deprecated;

great!

regrda, himba