Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968488AbXEIFtN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:49:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934320AbXEIFs6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:48:58 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:1212 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932760AbXEIFs5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:48:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RRR1kmZKLZ1wccd44bFzPzWCSDTPQnOYidNwtQ/tqtzhNfW4pAOals5NhYKpdH0iQNLTN9N9aVlyJLaxr6AOqS/zbkWVXjdEzjFD9ys750rBIXR3CBV26BD2A01mo9iyESNNbzh6ZOJsp0zkql8b9q6LVyYKvv+CkP258fbJuzA= Message-ID: <86802c440705082248r5248aa08s8299e03f615b984a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:48:56 -0700 From: yhlu To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, "Gerd Hoffmann" , "Jeff Garzik" , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization , "Rusty Russell" , "Andi Kleen" , "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: <4641573C.1000205@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4634483E.9030307@goop.org> <4640FB2C.2060300@zytor.com> <86802c440705081541v7d0773cek2c5fae1854b68bbc@mail.gmail.com> <46410403.4050802@zytor.com> <46413087.2020505@zytor.com> <86802c440705082152g49d4d3echf3eb165ce4feb2e9@mail.gmail.com> <46415640.6000600@zytor.com> <4641573C.1000205@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 20 On 5/8/07, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Of course, one could argue that since all of those were obsolete by the > time Linux was first created, that it probably doesn't matter and that > isVGA == 0 pretty much means the more obvious thing. > > MDA/HGC stuck around for quite a while for debugging, since it was > non-conflicting with VGA, but even if it is, the reason people put it in > their system is to have something that the OS doesn't readily see. > so the kexec tools need to scan the pci devices list, and find out how to set real_mode.isVGA and orig_video_mode, also need to parse the comand line about vga console. YH - 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/