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

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Message-ID: <46391590.8080209@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2007 00:49:52 +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 05/03/2007 12:11 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The problem is to detect the ones that have it from the ones that don't.

Checking here, and mine also has 132x25 as BIOS mode 0x14 in addition to 
0x55. Probably also not universal, and 0x54 (132x43) doesn't seem to be 
repeated. Unfortunate that Qemu/Bocks don't have the VESA text modes.

Rene.

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