From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fbdev: Make BIOS EDID reading configurable Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:34:38 -0800 Message-ID: <20060223163438.63ce04e8.akpm@osdl.org> References: <43FDA3C2.2010109@gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FCQvV-00082p-EB for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:35:17 -0800 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.44) id 1FCQvU-0004sU-6x for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:35:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <43FDA3C2.2010109@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net "Antonino A. Daplas" wrote: > > DDC reading via the Video BIOS may take several tens of seconds with > some combination of display cards and monitors. > > Make this option configurable and select only for drivers that need it. But that's not what the patch actually does - it requires that the user select the option. Also, is it not possible to defer this operation until we've parsed the command line, control it with a kernel boot parameter? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642