From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756240Ab0IWUAy (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:00:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59082 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750855Ab0IWUAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9BB1C5.80808@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:00:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker References: <4C994F0B.6030004@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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