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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:22:07 +0200 From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> To: Vlad <vladc6@...oo.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards On 05/02/2007 12:41 AM, Vlad wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, >> and before I spend a very large amount of time translating >> all the various card-specific probes, I want to ask the >> following question... >> >> Does *anyone* care about these anymore? > > Yes, booting Linux on old i386/i486 hardware is still very useful for > forensic purposes and recovering important data. I've personally had > to do this many times, and I'm sure others have as well. > > Booting is such a critical process that a user would be completely > lost as to why it fails, especially if they can't see any output on > the screen. I think it would be a shame to prevent Linux from running > on these machines. He wasn't asking about doing away with all video output on 386/486s, but with special Super VGA adapter specific modes. You'd have normal VGA available as always, and VESA if the videocard supports it (which all cards that _can_ do more than 80x25 do). Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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