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

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Date:	Wed, 02 May 2007 23:07:50 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

On 05/02/2007 10:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I'm having a framework for multiple drivers (probe and set methods,
> basically); the stock distro will have VGA and VESA drivers only.
> Dropping new drivers in is trivial if someone wants to.

It sounds like going overboard a bit; 80x25 standard VGA, 80x43/50 line VGA 
(settable through simple BIOS calls) and VESA (80x60, 132x25/43/50/60) is 
all that anyone wants. If Bochs and Qemu emulata a CL54xx, they'll provide a 
VESA BIOS for it as well, I suppose?

Rene.

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