[PATCH] Remove deprecated "nv" driver from autoconfiguration list

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:27 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net>
> > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:19:37 -0400
> > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 23:18 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > The vesa driver only works on i386/amd64.  Where does this leave users
> > > of other architectures?  Quite a few PowerPC Mac's have nvidia hardware.
> > 
> > There's no deep reason for this to be true.  nvidia cards with PC BIOSes
> > would work fine under x86emu, assuming we emulate enough of the system
> > ROM calls.  And nv card BIOSes tend not to call system ROM services that
> > much.
> 
> Well, I was thinking specifically about the origional graphics
> hardware that shipped with these machines, which will have an Open
> Firmware ROM.

nouveau supports those, I'm reasonably sure.  If it doesn't, Linux also
has offb for Open Firmware devices.  Your OS may vary.

- ajax
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