Re: Please revert 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e

[Antonino A. Daplas]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 22:59 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA
> >> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system
> >> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS.
> >>
> >> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA
> >> graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics.
> >>
> > 
> > Okay.
> > 
> 
> I did, however, take a cue from this and the setup rewrite now makes the
> VESA graphics mode unselectable if CONFIG_FB is off.
> 

Ah, okay, thanks.

Tony


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