Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:32:59 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa syscons.c Message-ID: <199704300233.LAA24559@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:18:51 JST." <199704300218.LAA23808@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <199704300119.SAA02530@freefall.freebsd.org> <199704300218.LAA23808@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>> Modified: sys/i386/isa syscons.c >> Log: >> In comp_vgaregs skip cursor shape and 4 unused bytes (6 total) >> instead of 2 unused. > >Unused? > >I skipped the cursor position registers (CRTC registers 14 and 15). >You skipped the cursor shape registers (CRTC registers 10 and 11) and >the start address registers (CRTC registers 12 and 13). > >I agree that the cursor shape registers and the start address >registers may be set differently from the video mode parameter table >when the register values are read in scinit(). So, I don't object >skipping them when comparing register values in order to make some VGA >cards work. > >But, these registers ARE used to set up the card, aren't they? > >Kazu Ah, now I see it. You wrote "unused" in the sense that syscons doesn't care about these registers, right? Kazu
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