Re: my opinion about VGA devices

[Matthew Garrett]

Tomas Carnecky <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well... that's why I don't understand why we should keep the VGA code in 
> the kernel. It's very unlikely that the kernel crashes before a graphics 
> driver can be initialized (if you do this as soon as possible) unless 
> you have a bad CPU etc.

At the moment, it /is/ quite likely that the kernel crashes before a
graphics driver can be initialised if you're trying to resume from ACPI
S3.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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