Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266175AbUJRLow (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:44:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266245AbUJRLow (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:44:52 -0400 Received: from faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.33.16]:56459 "EHLO faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266175AbUJRLot (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:44:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:44:43 +0200 From: Martin Waitz To: Kendall Bennett Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Message-ID: <20041018114443.GC3618@admingilde.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kendall Bennett , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <416FB29A.11731.1C46848@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416FB29A.11731.1C46848@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1502 Lines: 49 --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi :) On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:20:58AM -0700, Kendall Bennett wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > It doesn't imply this at all. You set an initial mode with the BIOS > > during boot up. When your initrd runs you gain the ability to flip mode > > and do cool stuff - arguably it doesn't even need to be in initrd. >=20 > That works great on x86, but this solution was developed for PowerPC and= =20 > MIPS embedded systems development not x86 desktop systems. For those=20 > platforms you either need a boot loader that can bring up the system into= =20 > graphics mode not neccessarily. If anything goes wrong before console is initialized, then that could be displayed by the firmware. Is there any arch which doesn't have some basic text-output functunality in its firmware? --=20 Martin Waitz --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBc6yqj/Eaxd/oD7IRAnaOAKCBH56JnYRZ6m03gfOHdkUo9kdDrQCfU8O6 lUD+RfPj4/l/TALLVUDgiRk= =K0SS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z4+8/lEcDcG5Ke9S-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/