Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:51:41 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker |
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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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