From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBC6C433E7 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 05:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301BA208CA for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 05:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=zytor.com header.i=@zytor.com header.b="UrJ6ytwn" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726446AbgIAFlE (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 01:41:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.136]:54417 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726006AbgIAFlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 01:41:03 -0400 Received: from carbon-x1.hos.anvin.org ([IPv6:2601:646:8600:3280:1098:42a1:36db:233c]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.zytor.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 0815ef9C3468657 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:40:41 -0700 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mail.zytor.com 0815ef9C3468657 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zytor.com; s=2020082401; t=1598938841; bh=r9YQ/fVq4Hy6bpEZQpjEOilLVaBkiI7tGTe4iXQIuqo=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=UrJ6ytwnWC2Ikz1ItsGmyVHRqVPX3NnYugW1Ag90+9FGPTIrL9JUps40d5Is8vc6L hHRrbrNLWSdqLcPvOfnJ00r6uBtFpAlO0Ibnk1TKqxPyMnUJ8N5HJdZQJgDFL13YO3 p99ApHZK9C+RHe5cEOrYYZznV0tU8OznR75HjPJWzZZWTjY7X9X7esuYZDFPPBuhqr HcR2Ksg/QNvlTaFo6XaK3kg36ZfRzUyzw/nfmtzDXOInBqBwc9xTiG50I1OoSmRd1y gh/KDar/7u4btSJR9/YyRHsVKG33KS5R2kMt0WCoJ9IZKymX8tgCC+u0p1X0PIN4fC jqFSKxQGOXZEA== Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev" To: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Karel Zak , Paul Gortmaker , Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Martin Mares , linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <20200901053822.9374-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> <20200901053822.9374-2-rdunlap@infradead.org> From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:40:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200901053822.9374-2-rdunlap@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2020-08-31 22:38, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > --- linux-next-20200828.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst > +++ linux-next-20200828/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Intro > This small document describes the "Video Mode Selection" feature which > allows the use of various special video modes supported by the video BIOS. Due > to usage of the BIOS, the selection is limited to boot time (before the > -kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines. > +kernel decompression starts) and works only on 32-bit 80X86 machines. > Incorrect. What controls if this is available is whether or not the kernel is booted through BIOS firmware (as opposed to UEFI, kexec, etc.) -hpa