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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 15:05:08 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
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>,
	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

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:46:07AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> However, the BIOS mode switching is still useful.

I have a 486 with a Mach64 in it running 2.6.18, so well, it just might
happen you know.  I do tend to run it plain 80x25 at the moment, but
that is mainly because it is just doing firewall duties.  I never was
very impressed by the mach64 fb driver when I played with it years ago,
and vesa isn't an option on that card (needed a DOS TSR to do that).

Not sure if that card is covered by any of the chip specific code.

So what is wrong with a 15 year old machine when it has 48MB ram and
18GB disk space?

--
Len Sorensen
-
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/