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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin Mares wrote:
> 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).

Well, I don't have a card which does anything like that, but I did just
implement the "scan" functionality and pushed it out.  If anyone cares
about that functionality it would be good if they could test it out and
report if it works.

	-hpa
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