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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2007-07-18	[x86 setup] Save/restore DS around invocations of INT 10h	H. Peter Anvin
	There exists at least one card, Trident TVGA8900CL (BIOS dated 1992/9/8) which clobbers DS when "scrolling in an SVGA text mode of more than 800x600 pixels." Although we are extremely unlikely to run into that situation, it is cheap insurance to save and restore DS, and it only adds a grand total of 50 bytes to the total output. Pointed out by Etienne Lorrain. Cc: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-07-12	Video mode probing support for the new x86 setup code	H. Peter Anvin
	Video mode probing for the new x86 setup code. This code breaks down different drivers into modules. This code deliberately drops support for a lot of the vendor-specific mode probing present in the assembly version, since a lot of those probes have been found to be stale in current versions of those chips -- frequently, support for those modes have been dropped from recent video BIOSes due to space constraints, but the video BIOS signatures are still the same. However, additional drivers should be extremely straightforward to plug in, if desirable. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>