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Bug#538159: CONFIG_X86_PAT=y breaks bogl-bterm, d-i



maximilian attems wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > The simplest fix seems to be to turn PAT off, especially since its
> > Kconfig mentions that it can lead to "boot crash, boot hang,
> > spontaneous reboots) or a non-working video driver".
> 
> that was the case for <= 2.6.29, 

The quote above is from linus's git head.

> anyway for KMS you want PAT *on*.
> so PAT enabled was a clear request by xorg maintainers.

Perhaps the regression introduced by
b6ff32d9aaeeeecf98f9a852d7155691835853 needs to be fixed then.

> maybe d-i should try to KMS?

d-i uses vgafb16, so unlikely.

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