From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1M4LMb-00065h-HE for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:47:41 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4LMZ-00064C-2p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:47:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4LMU-00062M-FI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:47:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56964 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4LMU-000625-8O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:47:34 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:51993) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4LMT-0005mv-Qi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 16:47:34 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M4L83-0001S7-KJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 22:32:42 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M4LMF-00039J-50 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 22:47:19 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:47:19 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090513204719.GA12098@thorin> References: <20090413144558.GA22165@thorin> <1239637296.3549.9.camel@mj> <20090413190546.GB24072@thorin> <1239664820.13208.50.camel@mj> <20090502113114.GA28362@thorin> <20090502153201.GI28362@thorin> <49FCDF4B.6050100@earthlink.net> <20090503155359.GB21659@thorin> <20090504203021.GA6649@thorin> <49FF652F.2070703@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49FF652F.2070703@earthlink.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:47:39 -0000 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:59:11PM -0400, BandiPat wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >> Btw, I increased the mode list considerably (using documented modes from >> Wikipedia). Chances that your ultra-weird mode of choice is supported are >> much greater now. >> >> There's still no fuzzy matching, though. I'm not sure if we'd want to do >> that at all for vga= modes, since we already do it properly in our video >> subsystem. >> > ========= > I'll give them a look as soon as I can get something new built. I'll > have to admit, I didn't expect you guys to go to so much trouble, since > the vga= will be going away anyhow. We can all live with the "fuzzy > matching" for now, until you get the new video subsystem operating > properly. Don't put a lot of time into something that won't be used > much longer, as we can live with things as they are for the moment. Maybe you're right :-/ Hopefuly this will be less of a problem when we can set it from a variable using a sane interface... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."