Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 09:46:07 Martin Mares wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I mean the SVGA chip-specific code.
> 
> Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run
> a 2.6.x kernel.

I agree; that code can all go.

What also seems to miss are the early CPUID checks I recently added
and which x86-64 has for some time.

Also if you ever add x86-64 support it does an additional BIOS
call to tell the BIOS it is 64bit.

-Andi
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