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DateSun, 1 Mar 1998 07:03:10 +0100 (CET)
FromGeert Uytterhoeven <>
SubjectRe: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > > drivers/hw/fbdev/fbdev.c is about all IIRC.
> > > 
> > > 	KGI/m68k runs on top of fbcons.c.  KGI exists in part because 
> > > fbcons.c was never ported to VGA-style hardware.
> > 
> > Thats a good start. Cos fbcon exists for vga text mode now, 
> 
> 	When did this happen?  This is good.  Now we can potentially make

Some months ago. It's called drivers/video/vgacon.c.

> the textmode-only KGI in-kernel mini boot display driver run completely on
> top of fbcons.c, which in theory would port KGI to any Linux/xxx which has
> 
> 	VGA-style textmodes are a historical anomaly.  Better to design 
> around software textmodes as an abstraction and just map it onto whatever 
> HW you have.

Greetings,

			Geert (who's still away, as Jes already pointed out :-)

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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