Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992947AbXEBJ2I (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 05:28:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992948AbXEBJ2I (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 05:28:08 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35127 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992947AbXEBJ2H (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 05:28:07 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Martin Mares Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:22:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <46369B03.1060500@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705021122.20716.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 22 On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:46:07 Martin Mares wrote: > Hi! > > > I mean the SVGA chip-specific code. > > Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run > a 2.6.x kernel. I agree; that code can all go. What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added and which x86-64 has for some time. Also if you ever add x86-64 support it does an additional BIOS call to tell the BIOS it is 64bit. -Andi - 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/