Re: [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, March 13, 2006 9:01 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > In-Reply-To: <1142261096.25773.19.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > References: <1142261096.25773.19.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:44:56 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> VESA does not require VM86 so this change is completely wrong.
> >
> > What is this all about then?
>
> that is about X requiring it. Not about anything kernel related.

And X doesn't actually require it, it's just that some builds of the X 
int10 and VBE libraries assume it's available.  They can be configured 
to use an x86 emulator instead, and probably should be by default so 
that non-x86 systems have a better chance of working (code coverage and 
all that).

Jesse
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