Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766752AbXEBXAO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 19:00:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767184AbXEBXAO (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 19:00:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:35637 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766752AbXEBW74 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 18:59:56 -0400 Message-ID: <463917DD.8020500@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:59:41 -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> <4638FF70.8020400@zytor.com> <46390086.2030904@gmail.com> <463901C9.7090107@zytor.com> <46390503.1000401@gmail.com> <46390CA3.5030300@zytor.com> <46391590.8080209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46391590.8080209@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: 718 Lines: 19 Rene Herman wrote: > On 05/03/2007 12:11 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> The problem is to detect the ones that have it from the ones that don't. > > Checking here, and mine also has 132x25 as BIOS mode 0x14 in addition to > 0x55. Probably also not universal, and 0x54 (132x43) doesn't seem to be > repeated. Unfortunate that Qemu/Bocks don't have the VESA text modes. > Does it export these modes though the VESA interface, or do you have to "select them blind?" -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/