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Subject: Re: VM86, VESA support in SMP
In-Reply-To: <199810150803.RAA22137@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Oct 15, 98 05:03:29 pm"
To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:34:01 +0200 (CEST)
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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
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In reply to Kazutaka YOKOTA who wrote:
> The VESA BIOS support initially didn't work in the SMP box because of
> some bugs in VM86 code.
> 
> Now that they seem to be fixed, do anybody still see problems?  I
> certainly have no trouble in my SMP box.

I still run with the patch in kern_clock.c, but I'm not sure its
needed anymore, besides that it works just fine...

> Shall we remove the following line from LINT?
> 
>     # To include support for VESA video modes
> --> # Dont use together with SMP!!
>     options         VESA                    # needs VM86 defined too!!

Dependent on the mentioned clock fix, yes...

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