From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030199AbVLFTZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030200AbVLFTZP (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:15 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:22409 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030199AbVLFTZO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Alan Cox To: David Woodhouse Cc: Brian Gerst , Andrea Arcangeli , William Lee Irwin III , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1133894575.4136.171.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051205121851.GC2838@holomorphy.com> <20051206011844.GO28539@opteron.random> <43944F42.2070207@didntduck.org> <20051206030828.GA823@opteron.random> <4394696B.6060008@didntduck.org> <1133894575.4136.171.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:23:55 +0000 Message-Id: <1133897035.23610.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 18:42 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > There's some work on reverse-engineering the BIOS so that you can > hackishly poke 'new' modes into its tables, but it's still not a very > good option. Especially as the BIOS interface at the low level for the analogue end and the logic driving it is board specific. Intel have been fairly clear why they use the BIOS interface.