[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jun 25 07:09:34 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:06:20PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> So if possible, i always prefer the in-kernel method, since it has proven to
> be more reliable. Of course only on machines where it actually works.
> 
> (and, on a sidenote: the result of the SIGILL in vbetool for the user is very
> probably a black screen, which is as good as "it crashed" for Joe Average).

SIGILL is only likely to come up during posting. There's still mode and 
state restoration afterwards.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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