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DateThu, 10 May 2007 20:38:16 +0200
FromMartin Mares <>
SubjectRe: x86 setup rewrite tree ready for flamage^W review
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
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Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@ucw.cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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