On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > >> What about the VBE 3.0 arbitrary vertical refresh rate thing? > > > > This is not implemented by the video-vesa.c because it will require > > complex calculations of mode timings (such as with GTF) to be done > > before starting the kernel. However, uvesafb probably does. > > > > There is no real reason video-vesa.c couldn't do those calculations, but > it would have to get the information from the command line proper and > not just from the 16-bit vga= mode number. That is a minor > complication, but not significant (the new setup code has a proper > command line parser.) > > The desirability of it is another matter, especially since it wouldn't > let any switching happen at runtime.
Yes, it's a lot of extra code that will be used only once, I would rather not have it in the setup code. It's more appropriate for uvesafb to implement that functionality. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
