From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946144AbXEBBKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 21:10:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946128AbXEBBKX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 21:10:23 -0400 Received: from web54407.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.137]:36924 "HELO web54407.mail.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1946146AbXEBBKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 21:10:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=TgRY0GVS9i4iko3akMmGjCWhiYoFkcwgmKrGKKLLm49SeKIpERP/caOBq8jH3AngJ1qvDXxqEAX82CsgOmO1no/Zr3TKS8vXOLXhMLEEgRIbv/4SlEApMespn4bFzFVSRzL4FjckuQISNjFZEZcqTYkq6eLeMoJ9uD2aqSNJkiw=; X-YMail-OSG: WOIL7aYVM1k69x2zuY645thQM2XSvbPTMvgha_C48CkhzgPmzwqOmv8CxR9Zqe4rz8_hvcn0ovxh4yvNKIZQmOfnow3Xa7fXbjNNgJhgKTZ46sp_4MggNRPKKqd7 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 18:10:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Vlad Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards To: Rene Herman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4637CB9F.9010408@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <90482.84176.qm@web54407.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Rene Herman wrote: > On 05/02/2007 12:41 AM, Vlad wrote: > > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >> 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? > > > > Yes, booting Linux on old i386/i486 hardware is still very useful > for > > forensic purposes and recovering important data. I've personally > had > > to do this many times, and I'm sure others have as well. > > > > Booting is such a critical process that a user would be completely > > lost as to why it fails, especially if they can't see any output > on > > the screen. I think it would be a shame to prevent Linux from > running > > on these machines. > > He wasn't asking about doing away with all video output on 386/486s, > but > with special Super VGA adapter specific modes. You'd have normal VGA > > available as always, and VESA if the videocard supports it (which > all cards > that _can_ do more than 80x25 do). Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying this for me. Vlad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com