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Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:59:03 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA >> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system >> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS. >> >> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA >> graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics. >> > > Okay. > I did, however, take a cue from this and the setup rewrite now makes the VESA graphics mode unselectable if CONFIG_FB is off. See: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=shortlog -hpa - 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/
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