Re: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Sep 23 2010 - 16:00:57 EST


On 09/23/2010 11:54 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-09-22 02:34, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> There were some minor bugs (typos) in the conversion to the glove box
>> coding style. The ones we have found have been fixed, so the first
>> thing is to try the current mainline or the current tip tree.
>> Otherwise I would look for issues where either the wrong register is
>> changed, or something like a variable is changed instead of a field.
>
> I tried v2.6.36-rc5 now, and it looks better. The cursor position is
> retained as desired. The mode switch is still there, albeit much
> shorter than it used to be.

The mode switch was there in the original code.

-hpa

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