Re: [PATCH 2.5.12] x86 Boot enhancements, boot params 1/11

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
06 May 2002 04:13:34 -0600


Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
> > #5 boot.heap
> > ============================================================
> > Modify video.S so that mode_list is also allocated from
> > the boot time heap. This probably saves a little memory,
> > and makes a compiled in command line a sane thing to implement.
>
> Do you see easy way to pass video mode used to kernel? S3 suspend support
> is going to need that..

Do you mean something other than the vga= command line option?
Which actually just sets a 16bit mode in the kernel parameter structure.

Eric
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