[OLPC-devel] Re: AMD Geode GX framebuffer: support OLPC

[Jordan Crouse]

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

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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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