From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:56:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060314215634.GA2269@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142260227.3023.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Po 13-03-06 15:30:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:13 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Force VM86 when VESA framebuffer is enabled and fix a typo
> > in the VM86 config entry. If VM86 is disabled there will
> > be problems when starting X using the VESA driver.
>
>
> this sounds wrong.
>
> The kernel works fine; it's X that needs vm86.. (but it needs that
> anyway).... but that's no reason to make one kernel option require
> another....
How does X solve it on x86-64? x86-64 has no vm86. I agree it is X
that needs fixing.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-13 14:13 [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-13 14:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-14 21:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-03-14 22:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 14:44 ` Alan Cox
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2006-03-13 16:55 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-13 17:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 21:58 ` Jesse Barnes
2006-03-13 22:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-03-14 1:26 ` Alan Cox
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