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To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 2020-08-31 22:38, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>  
> --- linux-next-20200828.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst
> +++ linux-next-20200828/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Intro
>  This small document describes the "Video Mode Selection" feature which
>  allows the use of various special video modes supported by the video BIOS. Due
>  to usage of the BIOS, the selection is limited to boot time (before the
> -kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines.
> +kernel decompression starts) and works only on 32-bit 80X86 machines.
>  

Incorrect. What controls if this is available is whether or not the kernel is
booted through BIOS firmware (as opposed to UEFI, kexec, etc.)

	-hpa