Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

Lennart Sorensen
2007-05-02T19:05:10Z

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:46:07AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> > I mean the SVGA chip-specific code.
>
> Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run
> a 2.6.x kernel.
>
> However, the BIOS mode switching is still useful.

I have a 486 with a Mach64 in it running 2.6.18, so well, it just might
happen you know. I do tend to run it plain 80x25 at the moment, but
that is mainly because it is just doing firewall duties. I never was
very impressed by the mach64 fb driver when I played with it years ago,
and vesa isn't an option on that card (needed a DOS TSR to do that).

Not sure if that card is covered by any of the chip specific code.

So what is wrong with a 15 year old machine when it has 48MB ram and
18GB disk space?

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Len Sorensen