linux-kernel - Re: [x86 setup 27/33] Video mode probing support for the new x86 setup code

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Message-ID:  <mj+md-20070716.105920.26230.nikam@ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:59:42 +0200
From:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [x86 setup 27/33] Video mode probing support for the new x86 setup code

> Video mode probing for the new x86 setup code.  This code breaks down
> different drivers into modules.  This code deliberately drops support
> for a lot of the vendor-specific mode probing present in the assembly
> version, since a lot of those probes have been found to be stale in
> current versions of those chips -- frequently, support for those modes
> have been dropped from recent video BIOSes due to space constraints,
> but the video BIOS signatures are still the same.

Acked-By: Martin Mares <mj@....cz>

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