[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:59:09PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:51:17PM +0200, ext Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > you cannot switch to the X-Server while the kernel is POSTing
> > the BIOS, but you can while vbetool does
> 
> In which parallel universe is it a good idea to switch to the X server
> (and thus let it start bashing registers on the video card) while
> vbetool is already bashing registers on the video card?

The problem is that we have no locking to ensure that users don't do 
this.
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