On Tue 2006-07-04 17:53:13, Jason Lunz wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:34:00PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I'd prefer not to apply this. It is better to just fix the kernel.
> > Whitelist is for video problems, not for random kernel bugs.
>
> I agree, I'm not about to switch to a 32-bit kernel. But giving a
> warning like this could save people a lot of time. The user can still
> use -f if she wants.
>
> Couldn't you also say the same thing about NOFB? The fact that X works
> after s2ram and fb doesn't indicates it's a kernel framebuffer bug,
> right? Why is it s2ram's job to work around kernel framebuffer bugs, but
> not kernel amd64 bugs?
Well, we should not workaround _any_ kernel bugs. Lets not add more at least.
> I'm wondering if this is a problem related to running the video BIOS in
> a 64-bit kernel. Isn't the bios we're running just some 32-bit x86
> instructions read straight out of the video ROM?
But we are running them under emulator, so that should not be a
problem... and they are probably 16-bit x86 instructions, anyway.
Pavel
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