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).
Rene.
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