Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Kdump: Disabling PCI interrupts in capture kernel | Date | Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:38:20 +0200 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan, I know very little about consoles and their working. > I had a question. Even if console is being managed by platform firmware, in > initial states of booting, does it require interrupts to be enabled at > VGA contorller (at least for the simple text mode).
VGA does not use interrupts for normal operation, even in graphics mode. It can generate them for synchronisation. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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