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Message-ID: <46369A8F.1050809@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> CC: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hi all, > > 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? > > All of these are specific to cards from a very long time ago. I am > currently planning to retain the VESA-related code, and the standard > video modes, but I'd like to avoid the card-specific stuff, especially > since I have absolutely zero ability to test any of testing them (with > the possible sole exception of the cirrus5 code, which is emulated by qemu.) Do you mean the SVGA chip-specific code, or additionally you are ripping out CGA and EGA support? Out of curiosity what C compiler will you use? Jeff - 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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