Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:18:19 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
cc: Asfand Yar Qazi <ay0106@qazi.f2s.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 'vga=' parameter wierdness
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>> And making sure the vga selector (i.e. when booting with 
>> vga=ask) always prefix numbers with 0x when they are supposed to be in 
>> hexadecimal, i.e. e.g.
>>   for(i=0; ...) 
>>       printf("%#x   %dx%d\n", i, vga_modes[i].width, vga_modes[i].height);
>> instead of currently
>>       printf("%x    %dx%d\n", ...)
>
>However, this would change meaning of numbers entered at the video mode
>prompt (with vga=ask), which doesn't look good.
>
Add a warning ;-)


Jan Engelhardt
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