Re: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review

From: Martin Mares
Date: Thu May 10 2007 - 14:38:25 EST


Hello!

> As far as I could tell, "scan" simply caused the nonstandard video
> driver scan modules (unsafe probes) to be invoked. Since those modules
> are no longer present, there appeared to be no need for them. The VGA
> and VESA probes are safe.

"scan" is still useful, because it is able to find BIOS video modes with
non-standard numbers (they are still sometimes found on recent cards).

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@xxxxxx> http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Entropy isn't what it used to be.
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