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Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev" 

"rdev" is considered antiquated, ancient, archaic, obsolete, deprecated
{choose any or all}.

Remove use of "rdev" and "vidmode" (a symlink to rdev) in
admin-guide/README.rst and admin-guide/svga.rst.

"rdev" was removed from util-linux in 2010:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3f

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918015640.8439-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -322,9 +322,9 @@ Compiling the kernel
reboot, and enjoy!
If you ever need to change the default root device, video mode,
ramdisk size, etc. in the kernel image, use the ``rdev`` program (or
alternatively the LILO boot options when appropriate). No need to
recompile the kernel to change these parameters.
etc. in the kernel image, use your bootloader's boot options
where appropriate. No need to recompile the kernel to change
these parameters.
- Reboot with the new kernel and enjoy.

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@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ Intro
This small document describes the "Video Mode Selection" feature which
allows the use of various special video modes supported by the video BIOS. Due
to usage of the BIOS, the selection is limited to boot time (before the
kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines.
kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines that are
booted through BIOS firmware (as opposed to through UEFI, kexec, etc.).
.. note::
@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ kernel decompression starts) and works only on 80X86 machines.
The video mode to be used is selected by a kernel parameter which can be
specified in the kernel Makefile (the SVGA_MODE=... line) or by the "vga=..."
option of LILO (or some other boot loader you use) or by the "vidmode" utility
option of LILO (or some other boot loader you use) or by the "xrandr" utility
(present in standard Linux utility packages). You can use the following values
of this parameter::
@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ of this parameter::
better to use absolute mode numbers instead.
0x.... - Hexadecimal video mode ID (also displayed on the menu, see below
for exact meaning of the ID). Warning: rdev and LILO don't support
for exact meaning of the ID). Warning: LILO doesn't support
hexadecimal numbers -- you have to convert it to decimal manually.
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