Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:24:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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On 12 Aug 1998, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > > > 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 > > > > > > You're definitely right, but would I have a penguin at boot in that > case?
If you compiled the driver into the kernel as your boot-time display driver, sure. Same as vesafb.
Jon
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