Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: edd breaking vesafb | From | Pascal Terjan <> | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:10:06 +0200 |
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Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 09:26 -0700, H. Peter Anvin a écrit : > Pascal Terjan wrote: > > Hello > > > > I got a report of vesafb no longer working since edd is used on a > > machine (Shuttle FN41SP). > > It's a BIOS bug that was easily workarounded by calling set_video before > > query_edd. > > Does someone see some issue in doing that ? > > > > Yes, it means that we won't get the status and error messages from > query_edd. In fact, we changed the ordering specifically for this reason.
Indeed
> The VESA code and EDD code both use the boot code heap. One could guess > that the problem is data left on the heap by the EDD code causing a > failure when combined with a bad BIOS. > > Does this patch work for you? >
No it does not help
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