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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:00:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9BB1C5.80808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009232052230.16976@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

On 09/23/2010 11:54 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-09-22 02:34, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> There were some minor bugs (typos) in the conversion to the glove box 
>> coding style. The ones we have found have been fixed, so the first 
>> thing is to try the current mainline or the current tip tree.  
>> Otherwise I would look for issues where either the wrong register is 
>> changed, or something like a variable is changed instead of a field.
> 
> I tried v2.6.36-rc5 now, and it looks better. The cursor position is 
> retained as desired. The mode switch is still there, albeit much 
> shorter than it used to be.

The mode switch was there in the original code.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21 23:53 "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-22  0:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-23 18:54   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 20:00     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-09-23 20:46       ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 20:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-23 20:51           ` H. Peter Anvin

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