linux-kernel - Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

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Message-Id: <200705021122.20716.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:22:20 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:46:07 Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I mean the SVGA chip-specific code.
> 
> Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run
> a 2.6.x kernel.

I agree; that code can all go.

What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added
and which x86-64 has for some time.

Also if you ever add x86-64 support it does an additional BIOS
call to tell the BIOS it is 64bit.

-Andi
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