From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:59:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46416327.3080007@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178690193.4747.16.camel@daplas>
Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA
>> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system
>> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS.
>>
>> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA
>> graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics.
>>
>
> Okay.
>
I did, however, take a cue from this and the setup rewrite now makes the
VESA graphics mode unselectable if CONFIG_FB is off.
See:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=shortlog
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 2:56 Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-09 3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 3:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-09 3:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-09 6:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-09 5:56 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-05-09 5:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-09 6:16 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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