From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754112AbXEACpd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:45:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754520AbXEACpd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:45:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:54738 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933454AbXEACpG (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:45:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:43:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards In-Reply-To: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Does *anyone* care about these anymore? Doubtful. The Tseng ET4000 cards may have been the gold standard in 1991, but I don't think most people even _remember_ them. And if they have them in their machines, they probably tend to run a Linux-1.2 kernel, or at least not care a lot about graphics (ie they may have an old card in the machine just because they need VGA to boot, rather than because they care about Tseng). And compared to Tseng and S3, most of the other cards there are just obscure. Linus