> I'm not speaking about a text mode. > I would think on most systems the firmware would provide some reasonable > initial mode that the kernel can use. If there is no such firmware one > would expect there is some preboot software that is used to bootstrap the > kernel that could do such a setup - using a number of fixed modes hard > coded in tables. (It is a pain to debug, though).
You haven't done to work much with embedded hardware. So instead of one graphics driver initailzing the hardware for every platform we need to force all the embedded companies out there to add code to there boot setups to initialize the different possible graphics cards out there. That is alot of duplicated work for nothing. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
