[ros-kernel] Jason read this, List of Drivers, Check Videoprt.sys Part 2

Filip Navara xnavara at volny.cz
Sun Apr 18 00:08:17 CEST 2004


Jason Filby wrote:

>But should the first miniport be unloaded if it fails?
>
That should be possible, but currently I can't think about some *clean* 
way how achieve this.

>Or perhaps only load the first one if the VBE BIOS check succeeds?
>  
>
This is impossible. At these time the drivers are loaded we know 
absolutely nothing about which drivers will be really used. For example: 
The VBE driver under VMware detects the VBE BIOS, but fails later when 
setting the video mode. If we would load only the VBE driver, now we are 
lost.

- Filip


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