Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161721AbXEAUkB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 16:40:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161717AbXEAUj7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 16:39:59 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:60773 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945912AbXEAUf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 16:35:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4637A3F6.70508@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 22:32:54 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1505 Lines: 30 On 05/01/2007 04:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Doubtful. The Tseng ET4000 cards may have been the gold standard in 1991, > but I don't think most people even _remember_ them. And if they have them > in their machines, they probably tend to run a Linux-1.2 kernel, or at > least not care a lot about graphics (ie they may have an old card in the > machine just because they need VGA to boot, rather than because they care > about Tseng). My 386 has an ET4000. An ET4000AX/W32 even. And you bet it's because it's nifty! Okay, I'll admit the thing doesn't currently run a 2.6 kernel... The answer will probably be "no", but would this be a good point to ask if this would be a good time to not bother with the mode switching code at all anymore? I'm generally rather appreciative of old gunk but I haven't cared for that specific feature for ages now. I personally don't use framebuffer, but I would if I wanted more than the plain VGA my BIOS sets up. I'd consider keeping anything but VESA 1.2 (which that ET4000 and most all other Super VGA cards of the era also do!) nonsensical and as far as I'm concerned this includes all the VGA modes with the strange number of lines; a 43/60-line VGA screen is too horrible to look at anyway... Rene. - 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/