Re: 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 10:50:59 EST

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davej@codemonkey.org.uk said:
> Crap. The OSS driver works fine, just not as accelerated.

Ah. It must have got a lot better since I last tried it then -- last time I
looked it wouldn't work on the newer chips at all. I had to use the vesa
driver instead.

> I don't see what it would buy us.

It makes it clear that untrusted and undebuggable code is running, just
like the 'Proprietary' flag does.

-- dwmw2

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