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    SubjectRe: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker
    On 09/23/2010 01:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > On 09/23/2010 01:46 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
    >>
    >> On Thursday 2010-09-23 22:00, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    >>> On 09/23/2010 11:54 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
    >>>> On Wednesday 2010-09-22 02:34, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> There were some minor bugs (typos) in the conversion to the glove box
    >>>>> coding style. The ones we have found have been fixed, so the first
    >>>>> thing is to try the current mainline or the current tip tree.
    >>>>> Otherwise I would look for issues where either the wrong register is
    >>>>> changed, or something like a variable is changed instead of a field.
    >>>>
    >>>> I tried v2.6.36-rc5 now, and it looks better. The cursor position is
    >>>> retained as desired. The mode switch is still there, albeit much
    >>>> shorter than it used to be.
    >>>
    >>> The mode switch was there in the original code.
    >>
    >> That may very well be so, but there clearly is distinguished behavior
    >> w.r.t. that in 2.6.36 compared to .30.
    >
    > Yes, but that caused regressions from the old assembly code.
    >

    By the way, if you don't want a mode reset, use "vga=current".

    -hpa



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