From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:51:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501015115.GJ26601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:33:09PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, and before
> I spend a very large amount of time translating all the various
> card-specific probes, I want to ask the following question...
>
> Does *anyone* care about these anymore?
>
> All of these are specific to cards from a very long time ago. I am
> currently planning to retain the VESA-related code, and the standard
> video modes, but I'd like to avoid the card-specific stuff, especially
> since I have absolutely zero ability to test any of testing them (with
> the possible sole exception of the cirrus5 code, which is emulated by qemu.)
>
> Please holler if you care...
I don't really care, but I wonder what the point is of rewriting something
that hardly ever gets notably changed, and is rarely (if ever?) a source
of bugs. It might be crufty old assembly, but it's worked well for years.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 1:33 arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 1:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-01 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 7:46 ` Martin Mares
2007-05-02 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-02 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-03 2:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 19:05 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-01 1:51 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-05-01 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 2:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 4:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 3:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01 2:59 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-01 20:32 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-01 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14 4:51 ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-14 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-14 7:18 ` Oleg Verych
2007-05-01 22:59 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-01 23:18 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-02 18:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-02 20:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:07 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:20 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:39 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 22:49 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 23:18 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-03 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:56 ` WANG Cong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-01 22:41 Vlad
2007-05-01 23:22 ` Rene Herman
2007-05-02 1:10 ` Vlad
2007-05-02 18:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
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