linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

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Message-Id: <1178691374.4747.23.camel@daplas>
Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 14:16:14 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 22:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah, okay, thanks.

Tony


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