Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2020-09-01 05:41:06
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On 2020-08-31 22:38, Randy Dunlap wrote:
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--- linux-next-20200828.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst +++ linux-next-20200828/Documentation/admin-guide/svga.rst@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Intro This small document describes the "Video Mode Selection" feature which allows the use of various special video modes supported by the video BIOS. Due to usage of the BIOS, the selection is limited to boot time (before the -kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines. +kernel decompression starts) and works only on 32-bit 80X86 machines.
Incorrect. What controls if this is available is whether or not the kernel is booted through BIOS firmware (as opposed to UEFI, kexec, etc.) -hpa