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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm] uvesafb: Don't access VGA registers directly when running on non-x86
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:41:51PM +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote:
> The VGA registers are only available at their legacy IO locations on
> x86. Don't try to access them when running on other arches.
>
> Note that the code accessing them directly is just an optimization
> (limits slow BIOS function calls). We don't lose any functionality
> by using BIOS calls instead of it on non-x86.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>

Looks fine, thanks Michal.
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