From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754347AbXEABdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:33:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753010AbXEABdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:33:23 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:34229 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754340AbXEABdW (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:33:22 -0400 Message-ID: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:33:09 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... -hpa