linux-kernel - Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 20:38:16 +0200
From:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPar.ms.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>
Subject: Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review

Hello!

> As far as I could tell, "scan" simply caused the nonstandard video
> driver scan modules (unsafe probes) to be invoked.  Since those modules
> are no longer present, there appeared to be no need for them.  The VGA
> and VESA probes are safe.

"scan" is still useful, because it is able to find BIOS video modes with
non-standard numbers (they are still sometimes found on recent cards).

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@....cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
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