Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2007 18:10:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Vlad <> | Subject | Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards |
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--- Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/02/2007 12:41 AM, Vlad wrote: > > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >> I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, > >> and before I spend a very large amount of time translating > >> all the various card-specific probes, I want to ask the > >> following question... > >> > >> Does *anyone* care about these anymore? > > > > Yes, booting Linux on old i386/i486 hardware is still very useful > for > > forensic purposes and recovering important data. I've personally > had > > to do this many times, and I'm sure others have as well. > > > > Booting is such a critical process that a user would be completely > > lost as to why it fails, especially if they can't see any output > on > > the screen. I think it would be a shame to prevent Linux from > running > > on these machines. > > He wasn't asking about doing away with all video output on 386/486s, > but > with special Super VGA adapter specific modes. You'd have normal VGA > > available as always, and VESA if the videocard supports it (which > all cards > that _can_ do more than 80x25 do).
Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying this for me.
Vlad
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