From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: Reading the EDID block for x86 machines Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030311234249.40244.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1047423718.1128.160.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from web14914.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.225.241]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18stOU-0005xp-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:42:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1047423718.1128.160.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Antonino Daplas Cc: James Simmons , Linux Fbdev development list --- Antonino Daplas wrote: > Yikes! No, it can't be done this way. During the > early boot sequence, > the kernel is not yet decompressed and loaded, so > all the services the > kernel provides are still unavailable. Unless you > want to walk, detect, > enable, etc the PCI subsystem in pure 16-bit > assembly... You don't Linux to look at the PCI subsys you make calls into the system BIOS to find the devices. > > Tony > ===== Jon Smirl jonsmirl@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en