Subject: Re: [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
       Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:13:49 +0100
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On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:56 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Po 13-03-06 15:30:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:13 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > Force VM86 when VESA framebuffer is enabled and fix a typo
> > > in the VM86 config entry. If VM86 is disabled there will
> > > be problems when starting X using the VESA driver.
> > 
> > 
> > this sounds wrong.
> > 
> > The kernel works fine; it's X that needs vm86.. (but it needs that
> > anyway).... but that's no reason to make one kernel option require
> > another....
> 
> How does X solve it on x86-64? x86-64 has no vm86. I agree it is X
> that needs fixing.


X has a complete enough x86 emulator for this stuff. Some builds of X
don't use it on x86,  but it works just fine; all other architectures
use it always anyway

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