Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: your mail | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:38:32 +0100 (BST) |
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> Suppose somebody writes support for S3Trio (and other cards that are > VESA 1.2 compliant), so they became VESA 2.0 compliant. Something like > UNIVBE and S3VBE20 for MS-DOG. It would probably go in video.S. > > Would something like that find a way to official kernel? > Is it even possible to write something like that?
You'd be better off writing some svga drivers for fbcon - I'd suggest you start by talking to the kgicon guys. Why fight the crude VESA interfaces when you can write the code in 32bit C anyway ?
Alan
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