Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:33:49 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Problem compiling 'setup.S' in 1.3.86+ |
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Martin Mares wrote:
>> seems flawed, IMHO. While we're on the subject, _WHY_ is all this damned video >> code in the kernel in the first place?!?! I boot up in normal 80x25 mode, and >> then use SVGATextMode to switch to 100x37. SVGATextMode is a perfectly good >> user-mode program for doing this. I really fail to see the point in including >> page after page of code in 'video.S' to detect and set modes for every video >> card on the planet. At the LEAST, there should be a compile-time option to get > > SVGATextMode is very nice, but not usuable on all machines -- there > are some cards it doesn't support. And some people prefer even in case > of SVGATextMode
IMHO, it would probably be better to spend your time improving SVGATextMode than writing kernel support. Presumably the kernel code isn't usable on all machines either.
P.
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