Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Checkin 464bdd33e9baad9806c7adbd8dfc37081a55f27e "fbdev: ignore VESA
>> modes if framebuffer is disabled" is just plain wrong on any system
>> which has support for extended text modes in its VESA BIOS.
>>
>> Antonio is incorrectly assuming this branchout is used only to set VESA
>> graphics modes, but it's to set any VESA mode, be it text or graphics.
>>
>
> Okay.
>
I did, however, take a cue from this and the setup rewrite now makes the
VESA graphics mode unselectable if CONFIG_FB is off.
See:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-newsetup.git;a=shortlog
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