From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Danny Beaudoin <beaudoin_danny@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Description should be updated
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:06:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BCEB0A.3060807@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY21-F31C2845A332866774C3A2CF3AB0@phx.gbl>
Danny Beaudoin wrote:
> Hi again!
> In Device Drivers/Graphics Support/Console display driver support/VGA
> test console (NEW)
drivers/video/console/Kconfig
> The description is the following:
> "
> Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
> display that complies with the generic VGA standard. Virtually
> everyone wants that.
>
> The program SVGATextMode can be used to utilize SVGA video cards to
> their full potential in text mode. Download it from
> <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console/>.
>
> Say Y.
> "
> This is not an option anymore and there is no choice to be made,
> therefore the user doesn't have to/can't say Y. This should be only a
> description.
It is an option if EMBEDDED is true or X86 is false.
For usual X86 it is forced to 'y'.
However, if you can suggest some better description,
that's OK too.
> Thanks for last time, I hadn't realized that there was a
> misunderstanding on what I meant
> and "Are you sure? It makes sense to me the way it currently is..."
> made me think that you didn't see the use of having all 'x86' written
> all the same, with a lowercase x. :-)
>
> Well, good job guys, keep it up!
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-13 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-13 1:01 Description should be updated Danny Beaudoin
2004-12-13 1:06 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-12-13 13:44 ` David Ford
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