Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766977AbXEBVPo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:15:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423508AbXEBVPo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:15:44 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:35590 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423524AbXEBVPn (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 17:15:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4638FF70.8020400@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:15:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , 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> <4637A3F6.70508@gmail.com> <4638FBB8.4020506@zytor.com> <4638FDA6.9030500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4638FDA6.9030500@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 24 Rene Herman wrote: > On 05/02/2007 10:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> I'm having a framework for multiple drivers (probe and set methods, >> basically); the stock distro will have VGA and VESA drivers only. >> Dropping new drivers in is trivial if someone wants to. > > It sounds like going overboard a bit; 80x25 standard VGA, 80x43/50 line > VGA (settable through simple BIOS calls) and VESA (80x60, > 132x25/43/50/60) is all that anyone wants. If Bochs and Qemu emulata a > CL54xx, they'll provide a VESA BIOS for it as well, I suppose? Yes, but like most other VESA BIOSen they don't have any support for extended text modes in their BIOS (they could add it, presumably.) However, the pluggable framework is quite trivial and makes the code look really clean, so I'm keeping it regardless. -hpa - 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/