Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030199AbVLFTZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030200AbVLFTZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:15 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:22409 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030199AbVLFTZO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Alan Cox To: David Woodhouse Cc: Brian Gerst , Andrea Arcangeli , William Lee Irwin III , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1133894575.4136.171.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051205121851.GC2838@holomorphy.com> <20051206011844.GO28539@opteron.random> <43944F42.2070207@didntduck.org> <20051206030828.GA823@opteron.random> <4394696B.6060008@didntduck.org> <1133894575.4136.171.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:23:55 +0000 Message-Id: <1133897035.23610.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 14 On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 18:42 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > There's some work on reverse-engineering the BIOS so that you can > hackishly poke 'new' modes into its tables, but it's still not a very > good option. Especially as the BIOS interface at the low level for the analogue end and the logic driving it is board specific. Intel have been fairly clear why they use the BIOS interface. - 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/