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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:48:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184798883.4523.80.camel@daplas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469E502E.8060000@zytor.com>

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > 
> >> What about the VBE 3.0 arbitrary vertical refresh rate thing?
> > 
> > This is not implemented by the video-vesa.c because it will require
> > complex calculations of mode timings (such as with GTF) to be done
> > before starting the kernel.  However, uvesafb probably does.
> > 
> 
> There is no real reason video-vesa.c couldn't do those calculations, but
> it would have to get the information from the command line proper and
> not just from the 16-bit vga= mode number.  That is a minor
> complication, but not significant (the new setup code has a proper
> command line parser.)
> 
> The desirability of it is another matter, especially since it wouldn't
> let any switching happen at runtime.

Yes, it's a lot of extra code that will be used only once, I would
rather not have it in the setup code. It's more appropriate for uvesafb
to implement that functionality.

Tony



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-18 10:42 VESAFB CUSTOM RESOLUTION Al Boldi
2007-07-18 12:15 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 13:45   ` Al Boldi
2007-07-18 14:20     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 14:52       ` Al Boldi
2007-07-18 15:07         ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-18 17:38           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-18 22:48             ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2007-07-18 16:59   ` Matan Ziv-Av
2007-07-18 22:43     ` Antonino A. Daplas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-17 14:13 Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-17 14:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-07-17 14:42 ` Renato S. Yamane
2007-07-17 15:04   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18 11:35   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-07-17 20:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-07-17 21:13   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18  1:50 ` Daniel Drake
2007-07-18  6:36   ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18  9:16     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-18  9:50       ` Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-18 11:19         ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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