From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754397AbXEABkg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754467AbXEABkf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:35 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44517 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754397AbXEABke (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:34 -0400 Message-ID: <46369A8F.1050809@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: linux-kernel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andi Kleen , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards References: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <463698D5.20102@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.) Do you mean the SVGA chip-specific code, or additionally you are ripping out CGA and EGA support? Out of curiosity what C compiler will you use? Jeff