Re: [patch] Require VM86 with VESA framebuffer

[Pavel Machek]

On Po 13-03-06 15:30:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:13 -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > Force VM86 when VESA framebuffer is enabled and fix a typo
> > in the VM86 config entry. If VM86 is disabled there will
> > be problems when starting X using the VESA driver.
> 
> 
> this sounds wrong.
> 
> The kernel works fine; it's X that needs vm86.. (but it needs that
> anyway).... but that's no reason to make one kernel option require
> another....

How does X solve it on x86-64? x86-64 has no vm86. I agree it is X
that needs fixing.
								Pavel
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