From: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: edd breaking vesafb
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:10:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221757806.26693.14.camel@plop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D2811B.8090602@zytor.com>
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 09:26 -0700, H. Peter Anvin a écrit :
> Pascal Terjan wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I got a report of vesafb no longer working since edd is used on a
> > machine (Shuttle FN41SP).
> > It's a BIOS bug that was easily workarounded by calling set_video before
> > query_edd.
> > Does someone see some issue in doing that ?
> >
>
> Yes, it means that we won't get the status and error messages from
> query_edd. In fact, we changed the ordering specifically for this reason.
Indeed
> The VESA code and EDD code both use the boot code heap. One could guess
> that the problem is data left on the heap by the EDD code causing a
> failure when combined with a bad BIOS.
>
> Does this patch work for you?
>
No it does not help
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-18 15:17 edd breaking vesafb Pascal Terjan
2008-09-18 16:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-18 17:10 ` Pascal Terjan [this message]
2008-09-18 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-19 8:33 ` Pascal Terjan
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2008-10-03 9:57 gettinther
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