From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933388AbXEABvw (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933410AbXEABvw (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:51:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57434 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933388AbXEABvu (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:51:50 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:51:15 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards Message-ID: <20070501015115.GJ26601@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:33:09PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, and before > I spend a very large amount of time translating all the various > card-specific probes, I want to ask the following question... > > Does *anyone* care about these anymore? > > All of these are specific to cards from a very long time ago. I am > currently planning to retain the VESA-related code, and the standard > video modes, but I'd like to avoid the card-specific stuff, especially > since I have absolutely zero ability to test any of testing them (with > the possible sole exception of the cirrus5 code, which is emulated by qemu.) > > Please holler if you care... I don't really care, but I wonder what the point is of rewriting something that hardly ever gets notably changed, and is rarely (if ever?) a source of bugs. It might be crufty old assembly, but it's worked well for years. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk