Why VESA and DPMS are available only for i386?

[Oliver Fromme]

Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > There's a third way, and I think this is the easiest one.
 > > This is what the Linux VESA framebuffer driver does.
 > > Let the boot loader (which executes in 32bit mode) switch
 > > to the desired video mode, enable a linear frame buffer
 > > (which is supported since VBE 2.0) and pass the address
 > > of the frame buffer to the 64bit kernel.  Then the kernel
 > > would not need to call any VESA functions at all, thus
 > > eliminating all of the above problems.  The drawback is
 > > that you can't change the console video mode anymore once
 > > the kernel is booted, i.e. you have to reboot if you want
 > > a different mode.
 > 
 > This can also lead to a situation where the kernel can not restore the
 > video controller to a known mode if the X server crashes or when the
 > user attempts to switch from X to the "text mode" console.

Why would you need to use VESA modes for syscons if you
install and run Xorg anyway?

Best regards
   Oliver

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