Re: [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 22:56 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Po 13-03-06 15:30:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:13 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > Force VM86 when VESA framebuffer is enabled and fix a typo
> > > in the VM86 config entry. If VM86 is disabled there will
> > > be problems when starting X using the VESA driver.
> > 
> > 
> > this sounds wrong.
> > 
> > The kernel works fine; it's X that needs vm86.. (but it needs that
> > anyway).... but that's no reason to make one kernel option require
> > another....
> 
> How does X solve it on x86-64? x86-64 has no vm86. I agree it is X
> that needs fixing.


X has a complete enough x86 emulator for this stuff. Some builds of X
don't use it on x86,  but it works just fine; all other architectures
use it always anyway

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