The patch titled ignore vgacon if hardware not present has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ignore-vgacon-if-hardware-not-present.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ignore vgacon if hardware not present From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> Avoid trying to set up vgacon if there's no vga hardware present. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~ignore-vgacon-if-hardware-not-present drivers/video/console/vgacon.c --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~ignore-vgacon-if-hardware-not-present +++ a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c @@ -371,7 +371,8 @@ static const char *vgacon_startup(void) } /* VGA16 modes are not handled by VGACON */ - if ((ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x0D) || /* 320x200/4 */ + if ((ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x00) || /* SCREEN_INFO not initialized */ + (ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x0D) || /* 320x200/4 */ (ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x0E) || /* 640x200/4 */ (ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x10) || /* 640x350/4 */ (ORIG_VIDEO_MODE == 0x12) || /* 640x480/4 */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kraxel@xxxxxxx are fixes-and-cleanups-for-earlyprintk-aka-boot-console.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html