From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] uvesafb: Don't access VGA registers directly when running on non-x86
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:43:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070913014357.GB26541@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912194151.GA5410@spock.one.pl>
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:41:51PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote:
> The VGA registers are only available at their legacy IO locations on
> x86. Don't try to access them when running on other arches.
>
> Note that the code accessing them directly is just an optimization
> (limits slow BIOS function calls). We don't lose any functionality
> by using BIOS calls instead of it on non-x86.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Looks fine, thanks Michal.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 8:17 [PATCH -mm] video: uvesafb: Add X86 dependency Paul Mundt
2007-09-11 11:41 ` Paulo Marques
2007-09-11 11:53 ` Paul Mundt
2007-09-11 12:19 ` Paulo Marques
2007-09-11 12:31 ` Paul Mundt
2007-09-11 22:59 ` Michal Januszewski
2007-09-11 23:09 ` [PATCH -mm] uvesafb: Don't access VGA registers directly when running on non-x86 Michal Januszewski
2007-09-12 0:44 ` Paul Mundt
2007-09-12 19:41 ` Michal Januszewski
2007-09-13 1:43 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
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