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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] > Another item for someone who wants to play with head.S and is familiar > with PC BIOS calls is to write a vesa1 fbcon module. That means setting > a fixed chosen video mode in the boot up while 16 bit, setting a fixed > palette if an 8bit mode (Suggest RGB332) and finding where the frame > buffer itself is then passing this to the kernel (if the latter isnt > possible we can play 'figure it out via PCI'). AFAIK with VESA 1.0 the mapping is always banked at 0xA0000. Now you need a "remap on page fault" handler for your banked VESA 1.0 modes, and *theoretically* any video card with VESA 1.0 in ROM (basically everything SVGA from 1993 or so on) can be used with that one driver. Jon --- 'Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in becoming one with God.' - Scientist G. Richard Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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