Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: greased ggi anyone? | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:06:37 +0000 (GMT) |
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> There is one particular aspect of ggi that has always struck me as > making sense: putting video mode switching into kernel space. > > Hypothetically, for the moment, what would it take implement this > pearl? I can think of three things: > > (1) putting that part of the kggi interface into a development kernel.
Or some equivalent API yes. Note that an API for this exists on non-intel platforms and should be copied with KGI below it
> (2) patch X to support this ioctl > (3) patch svga to support this ioctl
> Ultimately, I'd like to be able to take any running graphics program, > hit it with kill -9 and not lose my console.
And also
1. Switch back to text mode when displaying an oops/panic 2. Handle SAK properly on graphics consoles
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