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

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Message-ID: <463917DD.8020500@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 May 2007 15:59:41 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.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

Rene Herman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Does it export these modes though the VESA interface, or do you have to
"select them blind?"

	-hpa
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