linux/arch/i386/boot
Zwane Mwaikambo a369a7100d [PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2
VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458

Opened: 2003-10-30 09:12 Last update: 2007-02-13 22:03

Much thanks to Tobias Hain for help in testing and investigating the bug.
Tested on;

i386, Chips & Technologies 65548 VESA VBE 1.2
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=Y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=Y

Untested on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-04-02 12:14:12 +02:00
..
compressed Use ARRAY_SIZE() macro in i386 relocs.c file 2007-02-17 19:10:01 +01:00
tools [PATCH] x86: gitignore some autogenerated files for i386 2006-02-14 16:09:35 -08:00
.gitignore [PATCH] x86: gitignore some autogenerated files for i386 2006-02-14 16:09:35 -08:00
bootsect.S [PATCH] CodingStyle: trivial whitespace fixups 2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
edd.S [PATCH] i386: Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line 2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
install.sh kbuild: drop vmlinux dependency from "make install" 2006-01-09 20:36:48 +01:00
Makefile [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix isoimage when syslinux is in /usr/share 2006-06-26 10:48:19 -07:00
mtools.conf.in Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
setup.S [PATCH] i386: extend bzImage protocol for relocatable protected mode kernel 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +01:00
video.S [PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2 2007-04-02 12:14:12 +02:00