Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270895AbUJUTws (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:52:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270919AbUJUTsq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:48:46 -0400 Received: from mail.scitechsoft.com ([63.195.13.67]:2944 "EHLO mail.scitechsoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270895AbUJUThT (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:37:19 -0400 From: "Kendall Bennett" Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. To: Pavel Machek Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:36:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4177AD6B.23151.20F0292D@localhost> In-reply-to: <20041020191044.GB21315@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41764FB3.29782.1B9A13F4@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Spam-Flag: NO Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 29 Pavel Machek wrote: > One more question: Does 0xc0000 POST method work even on > notebooks? On regular machines, PCI card must have normal bios and > stuff is easy. On notebooks there was talk about "integrated bios" > where it really has no video bios at all and system bios POSTs the > card. Have you seen that? We have never had a need to POST a notebook Video BIOS so I don't know what would happen. It is an interesting question, and if this is to be used for resume operations something that should be investigated. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ - 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/