From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:22:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705021122.20716.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mj+md-20070502.074425.20911.nikam@ucw.cz>
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:46:07 Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I mean the SVGA chip-specific code.
>
> Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run
> a 2.6.x kernel.
I agree; that code can all go.
What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added
and which x86-64 has for some time.
Also if you ever add x86-64 support it does an additional BIOS
call to tell the BIOS it is 64bit.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 9:28 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 [this message]
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
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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