On 20/08/06 01:52 +0200, Carl-Daniel U. Hailfinger wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > The aim is to kill the CONFIG_VGA_NOPROBE option which was added by > > Jordan for safety reasons (see comments above). > > > > For that to happen, it must be certain that LinuxBIOS returns > > sane values for the following Linux VGA detection routines, at > > arch/i386/kernel/video.S: > > If we really move to a (compressed) vmlinux image instead of bzImage, that > problem should disappear as a side effect because no 16bit code is called.
It seems to me that would be a bad thing - we need some of the information processed in arch/i386/boot/. If vmlinux omits that code, then I think we're stuck using the bzImage. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
