Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:13:46 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 'vga=' parameter wierdness |
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Hello!
> That /^0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+$/ is required to interpret $_ as a hexadecimal > number, that /^0[0-7]+$/ is required to interpret it as an octal, > and everything else for a normal decimal number. > IOW, using strtol(my_vga_string, NULL, 0) everywhere (GRUB, as well as the > "vga selector" in the kernel). > And making sure the vga selector (i.e. when booting with > vga=ask) always prefix numbers with 0x when they are supposed to be in > hexadecimal, i.e. e.g. > for(i=0; ...) > printf("%#x %dx%d\n", i, vga_modes[i].width, vga_modes[i].height); > instead of currently > printf("%x %dx%d\n", ...)
However, this would change meaning of numbers entered at the video mode prompt (with vga=ask), which doesn't look good.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. - 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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