On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:41:51PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: > The VGA registers are only available at their legacy IO locations on > x86. Don't try to access them when running on other arches. > > Note that the code accessing them directly is just an optimization > (limits slow BIOS function calls). We don't lose any functionality > by using BIOS calls instead of it on non-x86. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <[email protected]> Looks fine, thanks Michal. - 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/
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