From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751180AbWDWXrm (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751460AbWDWXrm (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:47:42 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.177]:20190 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751180AbWDWXrm (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:47:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kTHGBcaWMWhrG4zcaPRU93hdsWqk5YdnHOcrbP8SMYDmnm+Zt9j0NrKGmketx+lVNLH1ocJFq6Uxz08e/CusI0H1XS8uAz2FO9Sw4W9OvdgWYHpX2oZW+VIbsVfgT4c/+LH8DgSCNEe2F6RgNvfWEt9wLEwE7pUsTPooYqRoKgg= Message-ID: <444C1211.8090505@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:47:29 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones , Yum Rayan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] VBE DDC bios call stalls boot References: <20060423202428.GC14680@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060423202428.GC14680@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:08:27PM -0700, Yum Rayan wrote: > > > There is a bios call to check if read EDID is supported. My first > > thought was that before doing read EDID, video.S should first check to > > see if the hardware supports the read EDID feature. Unfortunately that > > bios call too ends up in the woods until I physically > > disconnect/reconnect my CPU video output that feeds into the KVM. > > Is this how your patch looked when you tried this ? I've discovered that checking for availability does not give any added benefit, but this is the correct approach and I have to agree with this patch. Tony