Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767233AbXEBTFK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:05:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767254AbXEBTFK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:05:10 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:57013 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767233AbXEBTFJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 15:05:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:05:08 -0400 To: Martin Mares Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards Message-ID: <20070502190508.GI5577@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> <46369A8F.1050809@garzik.org> <46369B03.1060500@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 26 On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:46:07AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote: > > 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. > > However, the BIOS mode switching is still useful. I have a 486 with a Mach64 in it running 2.6.18, so well, it just might happen you know. I do tend to run it plain 80x25 at the moment, but that is mainly because it is just doing firewall duties. I never was very impressed by the mach64 fb driver when I played with it years ago, and vesa isn't an option on that card (needed a DOS TSR to do that). Not sure if that card is covered by any of the chip specific code. So what is wrong with a 15 year old machine when it has 48MB ram and 18GB disk space? -- Len Sorensen - 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/