Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762684AbXEKA4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:56:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758708AbXEKA4f (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:56:35 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:39356 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758402AbXEKA4e (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 20:56:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4643BF1E.50200@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:55:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Mares CC: Alexander van Heukelum , "Antonino A. Daplas" , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Matt Domsch , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander van Heukelum Subject: Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review References: <464158E9.2000207@zytor.com> <1178806235.18785.1189115515@webmail.messagingengine.com> <46435F8A.1040203@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 918 Lines: 22 Martin Mares wrote: > Hello! > >> As far as I could tell, "scan" simply caused the nonstandard video >> driver scan modules (unsafe probes) to be invoked. Since those modules >> are no longer present, there appeared to be no need for them. The VGA >> and VESA probes are safe. > > "scan" is still useful, because it is able to find BIOS video modes with > non-standard numbers (they are still sometimes found on recent cards). Well, I don't have a card which does anything like that, but I did just implement the "scan" functionality and pushed it out. If anyone cares about that functionality it would be good if they could test it out and report if it works. -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/